Here’s the thing though: the person in question was already struggling, as a new person in an office of people with experience, without assistance from their manager.
For their boss to tell them some variant of “you’re not cut out for this” in that vulnerable of a position when you have no frame of reference (and when it’s from the same manager that was supposed to have been helping you) is wildly different to hearing that from an impartial peer.
Here’s the thing though: the person in question was already struggling, as a new person in an office of people with experience, without assistance from their manager.
For their boss to tell them some variant of “you’re not cut out for this” in that vulnerable of a position when you have no frame of reference (and when it’s from the same manager that was supposed to have been helping you) is wildly different to hearing that from an impartial peer.