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An employee who struggled when criticised and resigned when summoned to a misconduct meeting was not constructively dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The PD Curran Plumbing employee told Fair Work Commissioner Bernie Riordan that a series of events in July and August last year were either intended to bring about her resignation, or at least had that result.

Specifically, she alleged that managers:

• told a new employee to "crack the whip" at her, in her presence;
• called her a "child" repeatedly;
• insisted they saw her with her mask off, vaping in the office, even after she denied it;
• called her a "f-cking liar" and a "f-cking child" who spoke nothing but "f-cking bullsh-it"; and
• said words to the effect of, "now that you're off the phone you can go back to being your bogan self"...