I'm not a particularly PC person but if someone in leadership where I worked referred to someone's thinking and ask for more time to ensure security as "loser thinking".. It would raise eyebrows, including my own, and likely trigger some sort of coaching at a minimum. This combined with the interviews to keep their jobs that was nix'd after the bad publicity..

Maybe this person was always an asshole, maybe it's the current job market. When the market is cold it brings out the worst in certain people. When their employees are "captive", they can finally treat them how they always viewed them; bottom feeders blessed to be employed.