I'm feeling a bit bad about it.
Basically, we got some new starters last week. Some of us were tasked with training them for a week, including me. So I was with two guys all week, training them and showing them what to do. One guy seem to get the hang of it. But one guy really struggled. To the point where it started to frustrate me a bit. After a week, he was still getting a lot of stuff wrong and not doing things the right way. Every time he did something wrong, I would tell him so and show him the right way to do things. But it just never seemed to register with him. He would make a mistake and despite tell him what the problem was, he would do the exact same thing just a few minutes later. This happened with a number of different basic tasks that my job entails. And this means the absolute basics. My job is not difficult at all and it really shouldn't take more than a day to learn all the basics. All of the more intricate you learn as you go. But after a week, he was still struggling with the basics.
My team leader asked me for a update on him and how he was coping. As the guy who trained him, I was obligated to tell her the truth. She wasn't impressed and reported it back to the head trainer, who oversees all the training of the newcomers. He is actually supposed to do the training himself. But there is always two head trainers there and one left recently and has yet to be replaced. Which is why they asked various workers there to train them instead. He then came to me for verification of what I told my team leader and told him the same. My team leader then came to me a little while later to tell that he won't me coming back. They had let him go.
I had absolutely no idea that they would fire him just like that and it was definitely not my intention. I figured someone would have a word with him and then he that he needs to get his shit together. But I do understand where they are coming from. The guy was unable to listen to basic instructions and follow them just mere minutes after being told them. If he was unable to do the job properly after doing it for a week and with a trainer standing by him at all times showing him what to do, what would happen when he finally started working on his own? Yesterday was his last day of training so when he came in today, he was going to be working on his own. After I had told them what I told them, they didn't want that to happen, so just let him go.
When they asked me for a update on him, I had to tell them the truth and they actually thanked me for it. But I still feel a bit bad that by telling them that stuff, it directly lead to him losing his job.