Let's take care of our service people.

Agreed!

You can also take care of people who work in the service industry by voting for people who support policies and programs that acknowledge the income disparity experienced by service industry workers and strive to provide things like higher minimum wages/guaranteed basic income, paid leave, healthcare, and childcare.

Politeness is nice, but it doesn't pay the bills.

Be best!

I would love if we could swap out “service workers” with “people” in the paragraph above. Add in the phrases “sometimes the cards are stacked against you” and “sometimes ‘people’ are working with a disadvantage” from the OP and just remember this for EVERYONE. 

I agree and we see so many new and often young employees at a lot of businesses around us, yet they are working their tails off! My DH is a good tipper and he has upped it even more though the pandemic, I notice. Last week we ordered pizza for carry-out, it was like $25 and he added a $10 tip. I was like, ya know you don't usually tip for carry-out (not that I cared that he did)? And he just said yeah, but they deserve it.

1000 times this.

Being nice and common courtesy is great and all. It’s also a very low bar. It’s the minimum we all should be doing. How about supporting those same people by supporting policies and politicians who might actually help them and not hurt them? Like, paying a living wage, help with child care, universal health care. The lack of those things are truly the cards stacked against them right now. And you just want us to be nice to them. 

Nice lip service. 

Sorry. I'm going to ramble here because it's been a long couple of days, from the unimportant (my team lost to a bunch of chanting/chopping racists and the rest of the country is happy about it) to the everyday annoying (the children are crazy) to the catastrophic (the country is going to hell in a handbasket and half of us can't see it).

The quote from me in the OP, taken out of context, ignores the rest of my post and the thread, where we were talking about all the shitty treatment various workers have gotten (including from our own elected representatives and the people who vote for them, as others have mentioned).

Kindness is only the beginning. It should extend to the voting booth. That's what so many people don't seem to get. Your "thank you" and "have a nice day" doesn't mean crap if you follow it up with a vote that denies a livable wage and other basic human rights to the person you're speaking to.

The thread was about police officers supposedly leaving because of vax requirements. I wonder how many good ones have left the force because they can't afford to feed their families on what they're paid? I wonder how many have left because of poor treatment from politicians who claim to "back the blue," but pull their support as soon as the officers do their job in protecting the capitol?

Similarly, I wonder how many teachers will leave VA schools because they're afraid (in future) of being sued or fired over an accurate history lesson. I wonder how many schools will buckle under the weight of legislators demanding an accounting of certain books in their library to fire up their racist base (this is happening in TX right now). I wonder how many restaurant workers will leave their jobs, and how many angry Karens will be lined up in Walmart on Black Friday, mad because they can't get their cheap TV (because "no one wants to work.")

The logical disconnect between interpersonal behavior and voting booth behavior in the country is incomprehensible to me. Don't sit in church on Sunday and sing "blessed are the poor" and "whatsoever you do to the least of my people," and then vote for Republicans in any forum, and turn around and lecture the rest of us about kindness. You don't know shit about kindness.

Not in the mood. Dodgers have done plenty of cheating of their own, and probably the Braves as well. And the Braves organization has done nothing to discourage its fan base from continuing to use their racist chop/chant.

Because the "goodwill" you suggest is a bandaid on the real problem. Retail workers don't just want politeness. They want a living wage and a fair schedule. I'm tired of getting thank you notes in lieu of a reasonable salary. I'm tired of getting jeans days as a thank you to distract me from getting shit on by the public for teaching "CRT" or not being able to single handedly overcome the effects of poverty. Bandaids in these cases are insults.

You all have chosen to make basic human rights and consideration for others a political issue by legislating against them. If you don't like people responding to that, make different choices.