Is this company screwing with me? Can they even legally do this?

Most states in the US have "at will" employment laws so you can be fired for any reason other than the illegal ones, such as your sex, age, race etc. So, yes, they can fire you with no warning.

Are you an employee (W2) or a contractor (1099)? If you're a contractor, they can cancel your work whenever they want and don't even have to give you a reason. If you're an employee, the reason they gave you is sufficient enough to let you go, even though it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to you.

On the bright side (although not really bright enough to be considered bright), with the reason they gave, you'll still qualify for unemployment, although having been there for not very long will reduce the benefit of it. Although, if they contest it, they'll have to provide more detailed reasons for terminating you.

You generally DON'T get a say in whether you get fired or not. A company wants to get rid of you, they will.

Like others have said. Read your contract. I'm betting there was a "you're on probation for x months" sentence/paragraph in there that states you can be fired/they can terminate your contract.

They're not screwing with you.

You're a screw up. They gave you two months and you're still not up to speed.

This is normal in most high paying jobs, they cut you loose at less than three months, so they can not pay you much.

Maybe you should take an actual welding course.

You mentioned they terminated your contract. Since you had a contract, you'd have to read it carefully to find out your answer. Nobody who has not read your contract can give you an answer.

(Con.) I knew very little about the job but still managed to pick it up after a day or two. This time I was not given a work order or a quota, or really any matter of timeframe or standard. Instead we were to clock in as "Shop Maintenance" and our manager would fill in the rest of the information. I was hired on with others like me who had started maybe a week or two earlier. We all messed up occasionally but we all learned to correct and learned from these mistakes. I felt we were all making good progress and improvement. I also felt I had a great connection with my supervisors. I worked my *** off. I had more energy and drive than all of my coworkers. I even stayed on overtime to make sure the product was in perfect condition. In the past few weeks we were told that production has been at all time high and we're doing great.