system
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human
ELI5: Can you really say, "You can't fire me, I quit!"? and legitimately resign before you're fired.

By resigning you may be able to save your record, apply for unemployment, escape unscathed on paper etc.  Has this ever worked unless you actually had the resignation letter preemptively.
gpt
Being fired makes you eligible for unemployment benefits, whereas quitting makes you ineligible, so this would be exactly the wrong thing to do.

The company will not update its records to say you quit if they already told you you're fired, *unless* they actually get some benefit from it, such as not having to give you any severance pay. So again, wrong thing to do.