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Neither of those are the actual definition of the word. I've always interpreted it to acknowledge a person's abilities/capabilities. The big conflict of respect at my workplace seems to be older people who have worked there for 17 years not being respectful of people writing there for 8 years. They think they are the authority figure and deserve that kind of respect (as mentioned here) and treat people who have been there several years like they don't deserve the respect to make any decisions. Which is nonsense, and they are just making more work for everyone by disrupting workflow in order to prove some level of superiority.
It sounds like the post fits fairly well to your workplace, but at any rate I think the important part is that "respect" means different for different people and the core idea that some think there's a difference incoming vs outgoing is problematic.
The whole core of "treat others as you wish to be treated" is this. It's not about actions, it's about intentions. It should be "treat others with the respect and consideration you wish for them to give to you"