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An employee has failed on appeal to prove that she shouldn't have been sacked for misconduct, after her mounting frustrations manifested in aggressive and insubordinate behaviour.

The retail employee was dismissed by her employer, which operates Adelaide supermarkets, in September last year for rudeness and insubordination.

In the initial unfair dismissal proceedings, Fair Work Commission Deputy President Peter Anderson heard issues began when the employee complained about being uncomfortable working with a co-worker, whom she had discovered had an historic conviction for a sex offence with a minor...