Look... I meant to post this a little while ago but I was busy then. And I guess I can only help with ensuring you qualify as "fired" in the first place, just to get the ball rolling. But anyway is this supposed to be ethical or unethical? Because maybe this is unethical but I have an idea, and it can definitely work as long as it's done right. Especially if there's only maybe a couple of specific people in charge of answering the phones, something like secretaries, prior to transferring calls to your boss. How big is your place of employment? And specifically how many people are actually answering the phones? If there's only a couple of people always with direct access to answering the phone lines then you're set. No matter what really happens, if you're fired, or even if you did technically quit, when you file for unemployment, obviously you need to say you were fired. Because your boss will say that you actually left and quit on your own accord, at least that's what mine always did, so that you don't qualify for benefits, and then he won't pay extra for unemployment. Many employers say that every employee quit, no matter the truth, just because they want to avoid unemployment fees and they know the state office of employment will automatically side with their version of the truth. Here is the possibly tricky part. You'll need to convince the people with phone access, maybe with your amazing, wonderful, beautiful, and smooth personality, or otherwise if you don't have that maybe just with a hundred bucks, to always say the boss is gone or unavailable every time the office of employment calls, especially for the review. It's like a trial for you, and will be like not showing up to the trial for them. You need to make sure that you always reply to them and that you do answer when they call for you. That way when the unemployment office needs to compare both sides to decide the case, they'll assume your boss doesn't care enough to answer and they automatically side with you. As long as there's always a gatekeeper answering the phone, and you control the gate keeper, then you're golden. Though this may seem unethical to some, I feel that in certain situations it is actually the most highly ethical. Especially if the employer automatically fights to pay unemployment and always insists that every employee they fired, supposedly quit. Good luck with it all.

By the way it also helps if the secretary people have access to the mail, because they can possibly obfuscate things like letters from the employment office stating dates or anything related to your case.