Legal Question in Employment Law in Massachusetts

I am a Massachusetts resident who was recently fired from my job at the company based out of Dayton for breaking a corporate policy by using my corporate credit card for personal purchases. I submitted these in a timely manner and always marked these as personal (the company acknowledged that they were aware that I never submitted personal expenses as corporate expenses) - they would then be automatically deducted from my paycheck for that pay period, this is something that was done by many throughout the company and was something that I had done in the past year, these were not hidden and many of the expenses routed to accounting for review and processing - I was never warned, written up or spoken to about past transactions - I am now going to apply for unemployment and am prepared to be denied and have to appeal - my biggest issue with my termination is that I have documentation showing that another employee was allowed to have a personal expense broken up over multiple paychecks to avoid having to pay the expense all at once and have seen other current employees submitting personal expenses when reviewing expenses with my former manager, these were approved and no questions were asked. This company laid off 15% of its workforce in January and consistently laid off workers throughout the year, I feel like my firing was nothing more than a way to let me go without having to pay me severance - If a corporate policy is broken, aren't all employees supposed to be treated in the same manner?

Also, the VP located in my office discussed both my firing and specifics with another co-worker (who happened to be my mother but regardless, I am over 18 and not a minor) - is that permissible?

Thanks!

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