A person working under the sun is spoken to with commands.
A sanitation worker is avoided like disease.
A delivery person is told to “hurry up” like they don’t have a life, a body, a family waiting for them.
It is getting worse.
We’re growing more impatient.
More demanding.
More disconnected from our own humanity.
We expect more - faster, cheaper, cleaner - and we forget there’s a person behind every task.
A person with a body that aches. A heart that feels. A name that deserves to be spoken with respect.
We don’t just ignore them - sometimes, we frighten them.
With our power. Our money. Our English.
We treat status like a license to speak down.
A rich customer scolds a worker and it’s called “feedback”
A boss humiliates a driver and it’s called “discipline”
And no one questions it - because we’ve normalised the cruelty.
That’s not progress.
That’s not development.
That’s just another way to forget what makes us human.
We need to get tired of seeing the dual nature people who act polite to their managers but rude to the man who collects their garbage.
Tired to watching someone talk about “mental health” online and then snap at a waiter for a late order.
Every job deserves dignity.
Every worker deserves eye contact.
Every human deserves respect that doesn’t need to be proven.
This isn’t just disappointment.
This is shame.
On all of us - for letting this continue.
If we want a better society, we start by looking at how we treat the people who serve us.
Not with pity.
Not with silence.
But with basic, unwavering, human respect.
Because maybe the real problem is this:
We’re not just forgetting to respect people who work.
We’re forgetting how to be human.
P. S. Thanks to ChatGPT
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