Quit or be fired?

[jcblitz]

I overheard this company that sits behind my desk talking about a situation if you're offered either to "quit or be fired", which would they take.

Thinking about it, if it was something that was beyond my control that caused this offer, I'd take fired. It would be something you could explain to a future employer that wasn’t your fault and here’s why…and you could collect unemployment.

But if it was all my fault because I fucked up or incompetent, I'd quit. You don't get unemployment, but you also don't get branded with "you got fired for fucking up".

Does that make any sense to anyone else? I've never been fired from a job so I don’t know how that works, but I've quit a bunch for various reasons. Just wanted to see what everyone else thinks.