PIGDivot
This is not unique to your work place.
Sometimes I wonder what had happened to our society.
Eventually, only the socialist environment would work for the mass of people whom do not want to work for their pay. It's plan and simple, everyone gets the bare minimum and nothing more. If you want better medical care, you'll need to pay for it, if you want a pick up truck, you'll need to work for it.... if you want a chicken on the dinner table, you'll need to work for it.....
Not sure if this is the tired generic pool or the way we brought up our kids. I had always point the hard working way to my kids, we pamper them, but we made sure they understand if they want a nice life style, they will have to work hard for it.
Life is like a Marathon. if you don't keep up ahead, you'll be left behind.
My wife had a story about a heart transplant patient, all was good until his wife got tired of his laziness and abusive behavior towards her and the children ( not a smart man as you could see ), so he got kicked out and divorced from the caregiver ( the wife ). Now he is homeless and lived in a shelter. He kept asking the Doctors and the Social workers to get him back to where he was before. When he was told there is not much they could do beyond the basic care and shelter, he got angry. He made comments like " you guys are not doing enough ".
So what ? He's got a fresh heart with second lease on life and out of his own stupidity he is homeless and he wants everyone else to pay for the life style he wants ? People like that don't deserve a second chance, that heart should have gone to another patient.