Unemployment Hearing = Amusing Times.

[Kaneman]

This morning was my scheduled unemployment appeal hearing, done by telephone. I was fired back in April after A) Uncovering a high level multi-million dollar fraud (I was the Fraud Investigator) and B) Opting not to "bust" people's cell phone numbers. Subsequently I was granted 6 months of employer paid unemployment.

Even though I only have 1 remaining payment my former employer had appealed and got their chance to have my benefits revoked this morning. So it was me, a TWC official, and an HR rep (whom I was friends with) from my former employer.

After the initial fraud was uncovered I was written up for....donating blood at a company sponsored on-site blood drive. Now, I've been with the company since 2001 minus a hiatus in 2007 and had never been written up or had anything but stellar reviews. So they had tried to show that I was a problem employee with the blood drive fiasco.

So the HR rep shows up to the hearing. They have no witnesses, they don't even bother to have the supervisor that fired me, who I used to mess around with BTW, show up and the HR rep they sent to do the dirty work was not involved in my termination. Needless to say their lack of preparation and use of vague language seemed to frustrate the moderator.

I'll be getting my decision notice via mail...I believe I won. lol