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I've been fired before. I'm up front about it when people ask. It's never been a problem. Not sure why this is considered a stigma unless you were really doing something wrong.

Because being fired is associated with incompetence, no?

I don't know that I've ever been asked that before, but similar to giving more than 2 weeks notice... why would you ever answer yes to that?

If you were fired from a job they can check and find out. This is bad, they may have to fire you for lieing on your application, even if they would have hired you for a yes.

Note that they have no way to know you were asked to resign. When you are asked to leave company records will show "left for personal reasons": it is illegal for them to ask what they were.

umm... weren't you "asked to resign"?