Any two-bit street punk can become a lawyer these days. Doctors are being pummelled for malpractice suits constantly. Get with it. Everyone I talk to preaches about how unprejudiced he is regarding race, religion, interest, whatever, but it's just not true. We're supposed to be living in a world where everyone accepts everyone until individuals show themselves to be sleazeballs, but it surely doesn't work that way.
People have their own hates, their own uninformed judgments, and so on.
They'd think of you as stupid, unskilled, and unfit to work with them. I have to laugh when someone who shot me a snide look when translating, was later fumbling around trying to figure out how to attach a file to an e-mail. Talk about socially inept. For me, respect comes through always being in one's element. Always being on top of the situation.