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by ratg13 744 days ago
>“The fastest way to demotivate a good employee is to show them the lengths you are willing to tolerate a bad employee”

- a sheet of paper i found in a desk 20 years ago

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From this post there's not really any indication they're a "bad employee" though. They aren't up to the needs of the team that hired them, but that was on that team to figure out before they hired them.

It's probably fine to fire them, but also everyone involved should be open about the fact that the hiring and so also the firing is the direct result of their own failure. The morale implications of this could be lot more nuanced than you're implying.

Well, not calling for help when needed makes them a very dangerous junior. I don't know by the post if they are a good person.

Could they have also lied on the interview?

I would consider personality as a strong factor in keeping them, and if the company has room for a junior.

Lowering the salary is a hard requirement though.

> Could they have also lied on the interview?

Everyone lies on interviews. Especially interviewers.