Minutae aside, as a European I'm shocked and appalled at that process, but surely an employment tribunal would have been the next step? Seems open and shut if you have the details to hand and everything evidenced properly. That said I'm sure you probably didn't want to be there from that point
Corporations are a useful thing, and are commonly used stateside to do shady things - like getting paid by a customer, but not officially working. Like collect unemployment, while collecting dividends for a contract your company has with a customer. What you have to do is keep applying for jobs. Most of the spam my linkedin gets is from indian recruiters. There is zero chance one of them can get you a job in the states. The ones that can will all have a name you can pronounce.
It is possible to get a payout for wrongful termination. This will count against your unemployment claim. It will cost (as the estimates in my case were) 10-20k for the attorney. I will likely have to go to court/arbitration, and it takes lots and lots of time and stress. As someone who is a company owner, I spend about 50 hours/week on owning my company (not working for my company). I can get a max of about 20-25k for the wrongful termination... It's just not the right way to go.
As a sidebar, I've worked and lived in France, Catalonia, Russia, and Japan - while living in those countries. I am in fact originally from Europe, but came stateside at a young age. Outside of Russia, the US has the crappiest "process" as you call it. It's a country where that process was put in place by corporations, to result exactly in this: the process is just not worth it.
The "do not discriminate bit" was sarcasm. We have this thing in this great country, where the people who do the most discriminating are the ones who complain most about being discriminated against. What to do if you're a criminal or a bully? Claim you're a victim. I won't go into that, because by this country's standards, I'm going to be flagged as a racist.
So the way to both stick it to the asshole ex-employer and make extra cash, is to double-dip. Get paid unemployment, while getting other income. If you own a company, you don't have to be employed by your company - you can just be an owner - like when you buy Apple stock. You can then pay yourself dividends instead of salary, and bam - you're still unemployed, while getting the same amount as your salary, and unemployment. You do have to keep looking for work, daily though. Which I did do. So, think of it as a legal loophole to screw the guy who fired you and make money off him.
Welcome to the English language. We don't type extra text like "he/she" every time for zero reason. It's not a conspiracy theory - it's how people talk. Quite a conspiracy theory you got there buddy. You must think the entire world has "something more going on" since the entire world uses "she" or "he" while speaking. Or, perhaps you lack practice speaking to people? Tell me, when the basement gets very cold in the winter, do you venture upstairs with all that sunlight, or do you use a little space heater for your feet?
