It's easy to be supportive of our friends or when it suits us, my responsibility as an employee is to exercise duty of care for ALL of my workmates, ALL of the time — this starts with support and respect.
Let's treat others with the compassion that we would like to receive, we all have vulnerabilities, bad days and periods of high stress and not all of us are lucky enough to have our own Darby.
We are not workplace clones without personalities or peculiarities, we are individuals, who, if we work together, have the capacity to create great teams.
When asked to define respect one common answer is 'it is acting respectfully' and another is 'it is not disrespecting someone'. Admirable sentiments yes, but they don't bring us any closer to a definition.