In theory, sure. There's a gray area where you're not quite content with the employee, but the employee is making some progress, so you may want to hold out. Bu

In theory, sure. There's a gray area where you're not quite content with the employee, but the employee is making some progress, so you may want to hold out. But surely in that case frequent feedback is a must (to guide the progress) so I guess your point stands. And in many cases the manager doing the technical supervising isn't in charge of the hiring and the firing.