Title: Just hired a new biz dev person. Over the weekend, he sent some messages that were inappropriate to one of my existing employees.<p>He asked to take the conversation off Slack (moved to Whatsapp) and asked if they could hang out (she said, &quot;sure as friends in work context&quot;), referred to her as a milf (ugh...), and asked if he could tell her a secret (she refused)<p>My employee handled it well and didn&#x27;t let it get out of hand. I&#x27;ve seen the evidence of the texts in question.<p>The employee came to me in confidence (I&#x27;m one of the founders) and told me she really doesn&#x27;t want to cause problems with the team. I&#x27;m really upset by this guy&#x27;s behaviour and I want to fire him immediately. If I do, she&#x27;ll know and it will be a violation of the trust she placed in me.<p>So what do I do HN? Do I fire him? Kick his ass? Get them in a room with a HR rep and talk it out? Hold a &quot;how to recognize sexual harassment seminar&quot;?<p>The employee in question has made it clear that it&#x27;s not a big deal and she knows how to deal with it, but fact is she shouldn&#x27;t have to deal with it and I want to make it clear that these things aren&#x27;t acceptable in the company we&#x27;re building.
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