I can&#x27;t speak for the person you&#x27;re replying to, but I think he&#x27;s stating that there&#x27;s lines in the sand that once you cross, sitting with HR and watching some dumb training videos and reading some policy documents is no longer sufficient recourse.<p>&gt; Over the weekend... 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)[0]<p>In the context of the original post, I believe this is one of those cases.  To tie this into the analogy to which you&#x27;re responding, if one of my employees asked another to move off work-chat so he&#x2F;she could assail him&#x2F;her and was acting genuinely sleazy, I&#x27;d pack up the offending employee&#x27;s desk, lock down accounts and access on Sunday night, and make sure I was there first on Monday to escort him&#x2F;her out of the building.<p>The language that my team uses would make a drunk sailor blush, but I think this is a pretty clear case of justified firing.  It&#x27;s damn hard to hire a great team and nothing will destroy it faster than interpersonal issues.<p>0 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11666857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11666857</a>