I work in a government services job and got a caller today who wanted our department to reprimand her private non-government utility company because two repairmen parked slightly off-center in her driveway. She proudly told me about how she shouted at them and made it clear that since the workers weren’t white she thought they were inept idiots. Cue surprised pikachu face when they left and didn’t fix her utility issue and she wanted me to call her (again, non-government service, so legit not something my department could even do something about) utility and yell at them some more.
Like. Fuck that, ma’am. I don’t understand this instinct for people to demean someone in a service job and then seek backup from someone else who serves the public. And I only ever get calls! I don’t have to deal with people’s shit in person, but it’s just so much to handle people who somehow convince themselves that they deserve every government service and benefit and support and unemployment compensation and SNAP and Medicaid but low wage workers don’t deserve anything but insults and scorn because they’re ~inferior~ and undeserving somehow. I hope the concept of class solidarity eventually reaches these assholes but Jesus Christ I think we’re a long way off.