&gt; I see your point, but if you&#x27;re an employee and you&#x27;re sharing that &quot;so and so texted me this &lt;shows phone&gt;&quot;, what&#x27;s the motivation behind that? She said she doesn&#x27;t want to cause problems, but if it&#x27;s something between two adults and not involving work, I would imagine she would just not say anything, particularly to management.<p>I think you&#x27;re dangerously into all women are always resonable logic there.  It&#x27;s entirely possible, that the female employee, as an employee of a startup, is inflected by the same hyper-sensitivity that plagues communities such as ourselves.  Conversely it&#x27;s also entirely possible that male employee is a complete and utter dickhead.  I wouldn&#x27;t bet my life on either one being the truth.<p>&gt; OP needs to read into their conversation, it&#x27;s hard to armchair quarterback this over the internet. At the end of the day it&#x27;s ultimately easier for us to say fire for a multitude of reasons, many of which are likely valid.<p>Well yeah, the OP hasn&#x27;t given us enough info to really comment and he&#x27;ll need to use his own personal judgement on whether the messages were over the line or whether he was just being a guy.  I&#x27;m just trying to remind people that whilst we should be professional at work, we aren&#x27;t automatons and normal people are going to continue dating and bonking their colleagues or attempting to do so and whilst that&#x27;s sexual, it doesn&#x27;t necessarily constitute harassment.