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An employee made it "impossible" for an employer to make her performance management process collaborative and supportive, a commission has found in rejecting her unfair dismissal claim.

In October 2018, the NSW Department of Education hearing support teacher met with the principal of her "base" school, Armidale City Public School, regarding concerns about her performance and conduct.

The principal noted the employee sent an excessive number of emails to superiors that were emotive, demanding and disrespectful, and directed her to stop sending them "when emotional". She also told the employee to follow her supervisors' instructions.

In August the following year, the principal asked to meet with the employee about her decision not to have face-to-face contact with a supervisor, but the employee responded, late that night, that she needed "to be not engaged in such a 'discussion' (whatever that may mean), and also not to be dealing with" the supervisor...