Where's common courtesy gone?

As of late, I have noticed something appalling in the way people treat one another. More specific to the situation, I work in a service-based business. Sadly, the resounding situation that has continued to occur has been frequent people who don't agree with the final decision made upon their request and near belligerent attitudes toward me personally. To go even further, these people go to the extent of marching themselves above my authority to tell my boss they should get preferential treatment and my decision doesn't mean 'squat.' If it doesn't happen that way, they choose to threaten to take their business elsewhere until they get their way in treating me like dirt.

Where I am going is this - where has the common courtesy between human beings gone? I don't see any respect for one another at all when it comes to interaction between people. Personally I feel that people have shifted to this some kind of 'expected' mentality that it's their way or the highway and they'll do whatever necessary to win their point over.

Since we are headed into the biggest 'gimmick' season of shopping and whatever else you can think that has ruined the reason for Christmas, we are upon something I never imagined before. It truly bothers me to think how the human race has basically become a 'stick it to the person next to you no matter the cost' type of people. If we think hard enough, what kind of leaders in our history felt this way and treated humans this way? I will remain silent in this matter but I think most people will see what my point is here.

People are not doormats and should never be treated that way. If we all chose to be a bit more patient and kind, I think we all would see a huge generational shift in how things happen in our world. Christ never treated people like this. He never told someone to their face that their decision was so wrong that He'd insult you basically to the person above you. It is simply saddening to know this is the route our world has gone. This has happened to me where I have had a choice in making something right after I chose to react poorly. Instead of sitting on my high point and thinking my position was right, I humbled myself to tell that person I messed up. Specifically, it all falls to the importance of God's Truth in 1 Corinthians 13 about the traits of love and how we really should treat one another.

That's where I remain. My prayer for society is to bring more humility, patience, kindness, common courtesy to one another. This could change so much in our overall attitudes and the way it can windfall to our daily action. If this has hit you in any way or made you feel offended, deeply I am sorry it has - but it has for a reason and God is convicting you of change. He has of me already in writing these thoughts on my own heart in how I interact with others on a daily basis.