IMHO "diversity" should also include tolerating a-holes. Sometimes for whatever reason, they do actually have a reason for being one.
Like alot of New Yawka's, he probably is a crusty old jackwagon. That being said, my guess is that that any employee whether they are male, female, transgender, xcrossdresser, black, white, yellow, brown, red, gay straight, both, jew, muslim, catholic, santeria, atheist, blah, blah, blah, would probably find this guy chewing through a steel wall if they asked him for help. "GFY "with those guys is quickly follwed by "sure" if you ask them for a helping hand.
All this rule does is cover for crap managers that should be perceptive enough to slam BS behavior into the ground the second it becomes a problem.
Signed,
An employee who has insulted every race, religon, sexual orientation, culture, nationality, species, plant, phyla, organism, virus, ameoba, and weather phenomana on this planet while on duty on company property. (I also include any blanket insults on any interrestial aliens).