Total overreaction by management who usually have their head up their asses anyway most of the time, so no surprise there.
Poor judgement maybe... but for that a warning would have sufficed.
Once sat in the RHS of an Air Europe 732 during the cruise, aged about eight, which was instrumental in occupying the same seat on the 737 nearly thirty years later but in a professional capacity.
We live in a different world today and I think most would agree (anybody over 40) that the old days were far more preferable.