I recently wrote a column for MSNBC.com on the importance of sending thank you notes after a job interview, and I got a bunch of email from readers saying they were treated like garbage by company hiring managers and felt the bums didn’t deserve a thank you.

So I wrote another column about how courtesy during the job hiring process has pretty much become a thing of the past.

What ever happend to manners? It made me think about something my mom always said, and I start the column with a reference to her. Were these people raised by wolves?

Is there any room for being nice to eachother anymore. Everyone seems to be angry, pissed off, ready to bust.

“I don’t owe you anything” appears to be the mantra of our age.