My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: Masschusetts
I worked for a retailer for 2 years always getting great performance reviews. I had the same supervisor for the majority of my time there who came to depend on me for helping him with some of his tasks. Through this he gave me his username and password to pull up certain numbers and do things I was unable to do with my numbers. I didn't steal his password, I was given carte blanche to use it. 2 months before I was discharged he was sent to be a supervisor of another department and the current supervisor was alleviated of scheduling while he was learning the business. I had had a set schedule for two years straight that went well with my class schedule. The new supervisor agreed to this schedule, and as it had not been an issue in the past my availabilty in the offical system was no properly calibrated with this schedule, it was just kind of a known fact. The managers were not very involved with the individual employees and started scheduling me on times that I had class. So I used the password that I was given to adjust back to my set schedule. I was discharged for using this password to alter the schedule, nothing happened to the supervisor who gave it to me. After being approved for unemployment, the company is now appealing the decision saying that I knew I was violating company policy.

