One of my friends had similar situation.
EDD said if you quit, regardless volunteer or forced, you can’t claim UI. You should co-op with your previous employer for mutual termination before you left. This means you agree to give up severance package and employer issue a termination letter so you can claim UI. But right now you still can appear. In the court, you should SAY and PROVE your left actually is involunteer and it is not your fault (like you didn’t damage the company’s business AND you tried best effort to accomplish the boss assignment althghout your skill doesn’t meet your boss requirement). In the court, if your previous HR doesn’t show up to contest, most times you win the case and qualify the UI.
$20K UI is important to you, right? Even more, after UI period is gone, you can still qualify 6 months job training. During those 6 months, you still get UI. But you have to take training course and pass the test.
Furthermore, if you look a new job late on and you said you didn’t qualify the UI, new company will think you are a bad person.
