&gt; I will say, however, that you better be VERY close with your coworkers before you start saying it. The kind of close that is IMPOSSIBLE to get to in the first few weeks of employment at a place.<p>I disagree.  I&#x27;m a &quot;contractor&quot; which means I&#x27;ve had a lot of short engagements.  Part of what makes me good at being a contractor is I usually get on with people pretty well and being a working class Scottish lad, I do have a rough sense of humour.  I joke around with both men and woman, and that&#x27;s okay because people like that part of me.<p>&gt; The fact that this guy just started working at the company and already called someone a MILF (and who clearly didn&#x27;t like it, since she complained to the CEO) means he is being horribly inappropriate, and has no excuse.<p>Well yeah, but that&#x27;s still the no smoke without fire argument.  She clearly doesn&#x27;t like it, it shouldn&#x27;t be said again, but do we extend that you immedaitly firing the guy if he simply misread the situation and dropped it from there?