Firings - Political correctness gone too far?

[John Ho]

A bunch of friends of mine got fired yesterday from the firm I used to work at (portfolio management for high net worth clients) for "inappropriate use of email."

Basically what they did was sneak over to someone's computer when he wasn't there and sent an email to another male employee like "You are looking really good these days. Need a workout partner stud?" Not the smartest thing to do. But evidently someone complained and they were fired for gay sexual harassment. This may be the first time in history 5 very heterosexual guys were fired for sexually harassing men. One of them was fired for also referring to marijuana in one of his emails to another employee(all their emails got read after the complaint).

They were never given a warning. Just fired. And a few of these guys had put in LONG hours at this company and were in fairly high positions considering their ages (mid 20s) Truly boneheaded of them but is this a reason to get fired?

I think it's fear of litigation and PC gone too far.