Lucky enough to only have had only one Unemployement hearing in my entire life and the Judge got it completely wrong.

Case before mine was a young pregnant lady and the Judge was bending over backward to make sure she got unemployment by asking leading questions and if she went down the wrong path, he would follow up with a question that basically told her to revise her answer. It was such a sham.. and her case clearly sounded like she should NOT have gotten unemployment because it was based on her being let go because of attendance or something like that.

Then mine starts, and the Judge is horrible as hell. Treats me like shit and right away I can tell he is going to side against me regardless of what I say. You could even see his demeanor change in his face from the smiling at the young pregnant lady to scowling at me as his voice tone changed as well.

After the case, I figured this Judge had a running tally going. He would let one person get unemployment, then go against one, etc.. and the pregnant lady simply beat me.

When I got the notice I lost the case, I wasn't surprised at all.

I learned then to NEVER work for a shitty company and if you do, quit as soon as possible. The company I had worked for had been sued numerous times for misdeeds including employee mistreatment, lack of payments, etc. Soon as I knew that was happening, I should have quit on the spot. But instead, I worked there like a fool for years until it was my time to be mistreated. But like you, I was surprised to find out how little Unemployment court really cares about getting it right.