[maximilianroos]

"In past years your performance would have been sufficient to give this more time. But conditions have changed and we're letting X% go today. So we need to make very imperfect judgements for those who are new, unfortunately including you. This isn't a definitive verdict on your abilities — instead it's the best we can do with the limited data we have."

...would have gone a long way here.

It makes sense it's a surprise — they've likely been operating in more relaxed conditions — but then things change, the bar rises dramatically. Not sure why they don't just say that. It should be an _easier_ message to deliver if they can say that it's a noisy measurement because she's new...

[yencabulator]

No firing manager in a large corporation is going to say a word more than what the HR training told them to say, to minimize liability.

[cortesoft]

I don't think you can say that... I have been a firing manager too many times, and I have definitely said things HR didn't tell me to say.

[yencabulator]

Sure, but then you've risked your own job. That's not the typical experience in a large corporation.

[aestetix]

I completely agree. Had they opened with that, I would have no objections to the way they handled it at all.