A few years back (peak-Covid) I was working for a company helping with temp staffing. It was shocking to me to see the operational expectations for low-wage lab

A few years back (peak-Covid) I was working for a company helping with temp staffing. It was shocking to me to see the operational expectations for low-wage labor. Clients would pay absolute minimum wage or maybe a dollar/hr more for all sorts of roles then be dumbfounded that workers were flaky. An airport subcontractor came to us having issues with getting enough baggage workers. Issue was they paid minimum wage, were located 30 minutes outside the city, and there was no public transport. There was no way for the workers to get to the job! The narrative was "these worker are so untrustworthy/lazy/full of excuses." So they would pay a 50% to an agency hoping gig-contractors could save them on single-day contracts rather than just putting that money to better wages or transit perks. Contempt really does describe the management attitudes I ran into.