If the supervisors and management don't care, their employees won't either. Work ethics have slowly gone downhill... Remember being worried that if you did not do a good job, you would be fired? Or if you missed too much work, were rude, sloppy, lazy, etc...
You would think with the job market being like it is, employees would be more worried about keeping their jobs, knowing there are a huge number of applicants standing in line behind them.