Work's been... eventful and at stretches exhaustive. I honestly never thought I'd say this and this soon but I do miss uni. Uni- where the mates were constantly pressured by assignments and relationship problems (in some cases lecturer problems) instead of irrelevant work that should have been done by someone else since it is not our area of expertise and dealing with nitty-gritty anal colleagues/clients.
Personally, I've realised (thankfully, sooner rather than later) that people will always remain people and no matter what position they hold in a company, they don't feel the need to exercise proper manners or treat people as they'd like to be treated. I may be a stickler for propriety and manners and I've seen how drastic an effect manners, or the lack thereof could be in relationship building.
Unfortunately, living in a country like this, the whole Asian values of respecting your elders (I'd like to see how far this 'value' will hold since bosses these days are 30 while their subordinates are double that) doesn't leave much room for people to develop a mentality of being polite- even to their staff.