I’ll tell you who ought to be fired... the person who decided to launch a time and money wasting investigation over something as innocuous as this statement.
True.
Kind of like a verbal burp: 'OK ... I have no idea what you just said, so lets move along...'
If someone is going to launch an investigation about every tongue-tied utterance -- just because in some universe, when held up to the right light and angle, it might be construed as offensive to somebody ... we are in a world of hurt.
PC gone wild.