What would a victory here even look like for you?
From the employer's perspective, you can quit at anytime, but they also have the right to terminate your employment at anytime as well. I think that's fair. It doesn't mean it sucks any less for you and I think anybody with a heart would be sympathetic to your position, but it would also be unfair to expect an employer to keep an employee in perpetuity if they didn't want to.
Just reading your post it is particularly easy to sympathize with your position. Obviously there is another side to this, though, and I don't know any business owner that takes terminating somebody lightly. It's awful to have to do (not as awful as being terminated, I'm sure), but ultimately when you're running a business sometimes you have to make crappy decisions that you view as ultimately better for the long-term vision of the company and better for the majority of the other employees. Maybe this was one of those cases...we can't know. It's probably fair to say if you were a star employee that everybody loved working with that management viewed as the next generation of leader in the organization you would still be there.
I do know if an employee terminated several months ago showed back up to cause a headache for me after I had done everything above board and with a view to easing their transition (laying off versus firing), my first thought would be 'glad I got rid of them' and my second thought would be 'fata him'.
There is nothing good that can come of revisiting this imo. Any goodwill you have with anybody over there will be torpedoed the second you make contact about this.
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