I wouldn't necessarily fire an intern for not knowing it, but they should have been more closely watched by someone with more wisdom. Anyone who's been around t

I wouldn't necessarily fire an intern for not knowing it, but they should have been more closely watched by someone with more wisdom. Anyone who's been around the block a few times knows it's not a good idea to put potentially offensive or unprofessional things into the product, including in test environments, code comments, or other things that aren't supposed to ever make it out of the company. There's a lot more ways for that sort of thing to end up in front of a customer than you could ever predict, and it's not worth the reputation hit to the company. I would agree that they should still re-hire him. This poor fellow probably learned the lesson that there's a time and place to joke around plenty well enough now.