When you hire someone to paint the fence around the dumpster

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One thing I have noticed about some people in these post-Covid days is that they won't stick with a job if they find it too hard, unpleasant, or inconvenient, or not what they expected, or if it's too nice a day not to go to the beach or - well, you get the picture. At the plant where K works, they have to wonder every time they hire someone to work on the shop floor if the person will bother showing up for their first day of work, and if they do, will they come back after lunch? Our maintenance manager at school hired a young man to paint the fence around our dumpster behind the school. In the photo, you can see how far he got before deciding he didn't like the work and left without finishing the job. He never told anyone he was quitting. He just left. Our MM called, but the guy ghosted him. Of course, this sort of thing happened before the pandemic. 28 years ago, K and I hired a workman to hang an interior door in our house. The worker got about 80% of the way done and never came back. We found out that he'd moved to Texas. He never billed us for the work or materials. Have situations like this become a more common occurrence, or am I just more aware of the because I've become a crotchety old curmudgeon?