Old fashioned values
I had an experience recently which left me annoyed & dismayed. I found that someone thought I was a "soft touch" because I was polite & said things like "please" and "thank you". Or maybe they thought I was a soft touch just because I'm gay, or because I"m starting to show my age in my face. Well, whatever their notions, maybe they've learned that common courtesy isn't a sign of weakness. Somehow I doubt it, lol.
It is a sad state of affairs that common (though I suppose it is becoming far less common) courtesy is taken as permission to walk all over someone.
But then I suppose, these days, anything goes and it's a case of "get out my way or I'll just run right over you & in the process I'll do whatever i want to do because there is no way i will listen to anyone else". And very little thought is given to anyone else - bosses, friends, whatever the relationship.
Maybe I'm just getting old. I know this afternoon I feel positively ancient & so incredibly tired.