We’re not too far from that.
While in a supervisory position, I got the third degree from HR for expecting people to show up for work on time unless they had a valid reason, and expecting people to show up for work sober.
Expecting a work ethic is now hateful, hurtful, mean spirited, narrow minded, and judgemental. Not to mention racist, sexist, and homophobic as well.
That work ethic thing is getting harder and harder to find. At times I have had to struggle to keep mine going since it seems to get nowhere when the lazy, lying, and the lame are rewarded.
I have a couple weeks of subcontracting out for a questionable technology company as a van driver. They offered me a lead job but turned it down due to absurdly low money and the crop of ragamuffins they hire. Think the reformed (maybe) crackhead, gang-banger, drunk, whatever that are the majority of the crews. A few of them are OK.
I opted for the van driver because it paid better than lead and got me out of the literal 30-40 pages of stuff that has to be faxed each site and there are three a night. That isn’t the 5-7 copies that have to go in each large box of stuff that goes back.
My Dell operations are never anywhere near that paperwork intensive and pay better. I laughed some at the guy who was field training me and another person about this must be some sad joke. He responded it is standard procedure and he developed some of it.