Is this company screwing with me? Can they even legally do this?
Maybe later I will reveal the name of this company but for now I'll keep it anonymous. So since February, I started working for an internationally famous, multi-billion German company with a plant here in the US. I was hired as a welder and they spent a month just getting me trained and certified (Mind you this was my first time on the floor as a welder). I got certified and put to work. I'm given a work order and quota. I'm really stressed but I'm making solid welds up to code. I messed up once, but was taught how to correct it. At worst, I'm going a bit slower than the others I'm paired with (likely because they're just more experienced than me). After being employed for two months, they terminate my contract. Just straight up. No warning, no chance to hear why or what caused it and no chance to tell them how things are going. They don't even have the decency to tell me to my face. They called me an hour after I got home. The best I can get out of them is that I "Wasn't meeting company expectations." I asked, "Well what could I have done better?" They evaded the question saying they couldn't tell me but that since they heard I was a "good worker" that they were interested in hiring for a different position. I said I was interested. They then dawdled for three months before I could get an interview. I got an assembly position for putting in flooring into our product. (Continued in comments.)