Many people are either cynical or outright aggressive, seeing unions and public servants as work shy with an easy ride, living in the past.
You see servants, women, and apprentices running in and out.
Now you will note, Your Highness, that you have seen few servants in this wing of the house.
Within those walls she could see folk moving-liveried servants.
Many of the nobility never "saw" servants and guards.
I saw fewer servants here, but they seemed older and more polished.
She had tried schooling herself to see servants, but even now, with the skin creeping on her back, her gaze slid around them.
Stannard saw the feminine form, but he had seen enough foamflex servants.
Looking back, Margo saw sleepy-eyed servants standing on the porch.
Difficult to convey the anger that seeing good decent public servants being put on scrapheap engenders.