I see a few of these complaints coming from people in blue states that people are fleeing.
Could be an issue

It depends on how you define shitty work ethics and bad attitudes.
If you actually mean mean shitty attitudes and bad work ethics, then for the most part, no.

Entry, mid career, and senior professions know of and understand what has occurred over the past several decades.
Lost pensions, worsened benefits, bottlenecked advanced and promotions, tip of the pyramid personnel increasing their proportional reimbursement 20 fold while stagnating other salaries, etc. - and have essentially zero tolerance for or disposition to put up with expectations that,
In previous generations,
Had reasonable expectations to be rewarded,
Because they have seen too many put those efforts in and get burned.
And have adopted a fuck you/pay me mentality.

For example. I kind of , sort of, tangentially through a family member, know a dual business/stem tier one type with over 20 years of history with a 2K employee/2B net type company, that they started with when the company was new, get laid off.
They are a fairly senior stem department manager, and replaced by a very inexperienced relatively new hire, making about 1/5th as much, to do the same job, while the tier above them has maintained or increased pay.

This was not a performance issue.  This was people maintaining or increasing their pay by replacing them with someone much cheaper even if it is bad for the company.

The person stuck with the same job for 1/5th the pay will not be putting up with the expectations of their predecessor.

They will end up getting marked as not a team player, bad attitude, etc.

Yes, it is.

I wouldn't say they don't want to work.  They just seem to have no idea what work ethic is or how to succeed at a job. I think it has more to do with this generation being more or less abandoned by parents with their heads buried in a cell phone or Netflix and hoping the school raises their kids.

They have no drive because nobody is encouraged them or taught them how to climb in life .  I think the constant doom and gloom they see online has enforced the apathy.

For reference, corporations have spent the last 50 years screwing their employees for entertainment.

Mix in the public school system, drug use, boomers, etc.

You’re lucky the dude even showed up and didn’t get waylaid by a masterbation rampage.

Start fixing some of that shit and watch the quality of people improve.

I only have my own experience with getting hired here, so I don’t know a lot about our company’s hiring practices, but we’ve got a lot of quality new hires. Like genuinely impressive.

Yes, and it's damn near impossible to fire one because corporate is so afraid of lawsuits, even frivolous ones with no merit. Not just rank and file workers, but managers too.

We literally have to wait for them to accumulate enough attendance points to get terminated because that is about the only thing employees can't argue with. Fortunately, most of the shitty ones have attendance issues.

Wait until you go to corporate with iron-clad proof about a manager who is lazy, incompetent, and puts employee lives at risk, only to get told "we have to work with what we have because we cant replace him".

DOOOOOOOOMM!!!!!

People are probably applying but they are being ghosted or ignored.

My guess is we’re seeing the results of the last 2 decades of decreasing quality of the American education system.

Without a doubt. Most of our new hires have attendance issues and are just plain shitty people.

People dont want to do a majority of the work for the smallest slice of the pie?

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I hear it's worse today, but I'm not sure I believe that.

Back in 1985, I was 18 years old and started as night stock boy at a little regional airline.
Everyone I worked with sucked.  They had no drive, no initiative, nothing.

In five years I ended up being the director of the department, with 50 employees working for me in 3 cities.
Three of my previous supervisors were then working for me.

The workforce wasn't worth a fuck back then either.

Tony