i am answering the scenario, not you.
the applicant had passed the eval, then they had a hard on and had him do something that appears that no one else was given.
121 standards is what the poi lets them get away with. how 121 qualified were the 250 hour pilots ae hired. I know of one of them that at the end of his IOE, IOE totaled 30% of his total time.

This applicant was discriminated. Simple.