To be fair, it's probably only a small subset of people, but a "small subset" is still many.
Today, someone got on the train at some station along the red line; he was not dressed up for work, did not have a company nametag/ID, etc. Also, his hair was kind of messed up. Everyone looked at him like he was some sort of delinquent--I saw the person he sat down next to move over to avoid him. A few stops later, an old lady got on the train. She'd clearly had a long day, and was getting to the age where most people can't walk very fast or stand for a long time anymore. Everyone either just sat and stared at her too, or pretended to be sleeping and not notice her...except for this "delinquent-looking" kid. He gave up his seat.
Apparently, people on the Metro will never get old.
I understand that most people work eight hours, or more. But, if they have enough energy to viciously push people out of the way so that they can get on the train, they have enough energy to stand up for 15 minutes (also, a lot of them probably work in an office and are sitting down all day anyway)...
I've also seen people be rude to the Metrobus drivers almost every day, acting like they don't exist, yelling at them when they don't open the door fast enough...
It has to be possible for these people to act nicely; they wouldn't have gotten as far as they have if they were obnoxious to everyone, including the person who originally employed them. But, they apparently choose not to, since there is no direct benefit to themselves.
Everyone's job is to provide a good or service. The bus drivers from the parking lot to the train station for someone. Doctors provide medical care for someone. Computer programmers write programs for someone. And I'm sure it's no different for any of these people; otherwise they'd be useless. But apparently, they don't seem to realize that it might be their job to work for the people who get them to work every day.
Almost all of these people claim to have gotten "higher education." I don't doubt that they went to college and/or graduate school and/or other kinds of school I've forgotten to name, and are smart, and successful, and whatever, but sometimes I doubt that they've know anything about how to be a person. And then I wonder how it is possible that they've been able to go through their entire life without learning to.
