The guy I worked for probably had a change of heart. Just before I left my employment there, his wife had a late term miscarriage. It was very sad but I hope to served to humanize him a little bit.
Doesn't excuse it, and thankfully I've not done it with anyone who works for me, but I could see how it would happen. (FWIW, thanks for the reminder for me to think before I open my mouth....)
Or, maybe he was just a bonehead. They come in all shapes and sizes.
To bring it back around to the thread... I've had all sorts of bosses, both bathrooms, gay and straight, all colors. Some were good, some were terrible, and most were unremarkable.
I did work peripherally with an all-female-and-gay-male department, for a short time. It was - to steal from a poster above - Hell's Waiting Room. My boss (a former Chippendale's dancer) couldn't work with them because the sexual harassment was so bad. He sent me in his place, nothing like crawling around on all fours underneath desks to fix the computers, while an entire department whistles and catcalls at the "show". Miserable bunch of ##@#@$@!!@s.
As soon as upper management found out about them - there was plenty of malfeasance other than sexual harassment - the entire lot of them were fired, from the head of the department right on down. Everyone got the axe. Which was fine by me. Good riddance.