I have a nephew who lost a job as a waiter due to not showing up. My wife helped him get a job as a painter, 12.00/hr., and a week into the job he took two days off to go to a concert.
Given what I have seen with young people, THAT is typical.
They simply don’t comprehend what it is to show up everyday at the same place and at the same time.
Once I worked with a company who hired a young woman (single mom with an infant) who IMMEDIATELY asked for and GOT 3 days funeral leave on the death of her great aunt, who lived 400 miles away and who she hadn’t seen in 8 years. Duhhh!
Kids today believe they are entitled. To everything. Nobody wants to work their way up the ladder. They want instant gratification because that is what they see on TV. People are rich and famous simply because they are rich and famous. It’s a product of the instantaneous nature of news nowadays.
My step daughter simply couldn’t understand why she couldn’t bring a concert schedule to a job interview just so as to “set expectations”. My wife, her mom, did her best to try to talk her out if it. I usually try to absent myself from such discussions but I butted in. I told her she didn’t need the schedule since the actual dates would be unimportant because no one would hire a kid with that sort of approach. She told me, an MBA with 35 years in the financial services industry, that I simply didn’t understand business. I butted out.