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An employee's lack of "insight and resilience" meant he couldn't recognise his colleagues' behaviour was a direct response to his own, the Fair Work Commission has found in stop-bullying proceedings. It also made three recommendations to ensure more "viable" ongoing relationships.

Commissioner Nicholas Wilson said it was "inescapable" to conclude that the Australia Post mail officer's relationships with superiors and colleagues was "fraught to the point of collapse"; managers "manoeuvre carefully around him so as not to provoke further complaints", while other staff who have been complained about "actively avoid him".

"Much of the conflict that has arisen is petty and to the extent that it is two-sided probably reflective of a likely poor workplace culture."

The employee's stop-bullying application claimed that five managers and three colleagues had engaged in unreasonable behaviour towards him from 2016 onwards...