firing offenses

It's a good week to have brought up the private-lives-of-public-people topic (see post below). But any given week might be the right week. I'd been meaning to broach the topic weeks, maybe months ago, but hadn't gotten around to it until an actor's arrest for DUI this week reminded me of the general issue. Now Isaiah Washington isn't coming back next year to "Grey's Anatomy," and Entertainment Weekly's Michael Slezak brings up the questions sparked by "Isaiah-gate" over at the magazine's Popwatch blog.

I don't watch "Grey's" regularly, and this year not really at all, so I can't say how it would affect me as a viewer. As a person in the workplace, I think some situations depend on the individuals involved. If they come to a resolution and the offended parties are OK with the offending person keeping his job, then that seems like the way to go. But, then, some language strikes me as obviously fire-worthy, such as the word Washington used. What do you think?