My adult son works in the billing department of a large cable TV company's phone center. He says the majority of calls he deals with are from cable customers who have not paid their bill in months, were warned repeatedly that their service would be terminated and when they still had not paid or attempted to pay (set up a payment plan) the company cut off their cable TV service. Part of my son's job is to explain why their cable service was cut off. He receives a lot of swearing and threats from cable customers who can't understand why they cannot get the service virtually free. Because cable TV is hardly a necessity and the complaints are from people who were given many opportunities to pay for the service they received under a contract they agreed to, he is polite but not terribly sympathetic to these people.
Like his parents, my son is a Christian and in no way considers his work 'dishonorable', no more than a bank official that has to foreclose on a mortgagee who has not paid his mortgage payment for months and by not paying, violated the terms of his agreed-to loan. A broad brush should not be used to find 'dishonor' in other people's jobs. Better to take the plank out of one's own eye before worrying about the speck in your brothers eye.
If someone refuses to pay their mortgage or car note or, yes, their cable bill, and don’t even make an attempt to work out payment arrangements with their creditor, they deserve to lose their home or car or cable service.
But there are some who are casualties of the most anemic economic recovery since the Great Depression who seek not to blow off their debts, but forbearance from their creditors. The same kind of forbearance, same kind of “grace,” the Lord has freely gifted us, though none of us deserve it.
Finally, just so you know, I listed my own job among those included in this essay.