appeal or not (receive, work, state, hearing)

[tmkmomma]

My boyfriend was discharged from his job because he was accused of falsying his time. He was approached by someone from payroll about what time he came in because he didnt punch in while unloading a truck. He rattled off a time in his head but stated that may not be right because he was trying to unload a truck that had to be gone at a certain time. When his supervisor came through he told him that he needed to change his time because he got his days mixed up. His supervisor said ok Ill take care of it. Well another lead man was in the office when payroll was being done and brought it to the lady's attention that his time was wrong. Payroll then asked my boyfrien's supervisor to run back the time because the time he quoted may be wrong. The supervisor approached my boyfriend and told him what he was about to do, my boyfriend then stated to him that I told you that I needed my time changed I made an mistake. After reviewing the video it showed that he arrived 23 minutes later than he orginally stated and was fired. There was no paperwork presented to state the reasons for his termination he was just asked did he have anything to say he stated no. While being escorted by his supervisor out the door, the supervisor stated to him why did you allow the other leadman to get you, my boyfriend replied I didnt you did because I told you I needed my time changed and you didnt change it. He applied for benefits and was just denied and wants to appeal it. I told him that he needed to gather all his papers from his job concerning his discharge because he had no set time to be there and he had been going to work at different times and working 10-12 hours a day. He does not have any prior write ups or discipline actions and has worked for this company for over 17 years.

[Chyvan]

If you don't appeal the answer is no. The other thing is that you're not going to be able to speak for your boyfriend at the hearing, so I suggest you stop speaking for him and being his go between. He needs to do this himself, with his own words, and read the answers for himself or he'll be a bumbling idiot at his hearing because he was letting you take care of everything

I don't care what "really" happened. You say "appeal or not." To mean that means he's received a denial of benefits, and I only care what the denial says. So type it in. Also, I don't need to read the denial to know that if you want to appeal, it is a REQUEST. Just say, "the determination dated mm/dd/yy is wrong. I want an appeal hearing scheduled," get it submitted, and then we can work on preparing for the hearing.