For the past month or so I have been training a new girl at my job. (News Station)

She’s about 4 years older that me (28) and has never worked i this field. So far, she has been doing good, but their are things I have had to correct.

While training, I will immediately let her know when something has gone wrong and she is notorious for panicking a little (oh my gosh I am so so sorry thank you so so much I’ll get that fixed right now again I am so so sorry) and I always tell her not to worry or stress, as mistakes happen. Everytime I correct her we go through this.

Well yesterday I guess she was going through some personal stuff and couldn’t focus, and I had to correct her on 4 things, 3 being the same one she kept messing up.

Well I walk over and let her know and she starts crying infront of me and all our coworkers and I started PANICKING. I told her that it was completely fine and it wasn’t that big of a deal, I just wanted to let her know so she could fix it.

She explained that us wasn’t work, it was personal, and she said she thought she was keeping it separate but she just couldn’t focus.

We tried making her feel better by telling some bigger work blunders, and I think it worked.

But then this morning I get in and the manager talks to me.

He wants me to calm down on training her because I’m “too intense” or something, he understands I want to let her know when something is wrong, but maybe not say “oh! By the way…”

Should I just not correct her anymore? I honestly don’t know how to be more “gentle” than I am now. Especially because most of the time, it is something she hadn’t done, but I want to make sure she knows, and I even tell her that.

He wasn’t there when it happened either so the only thing I can think of is someone told him.

My job has a bad habit of being gentle and lenient with new employees then being really mean once they get a few months under their belt, and I just wanted to make sure she had her skills ready so she wasn’t caught unprepared.