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Location, location, location.
It depends on the labor market, the labor culture, and alternative work places. Where I am, and I'm guessing it is the same where Johm is, there are a lot more positions to fill than people to fill them and it has been this way for several years. That means that you can run ads for weeks and hardly get a call - that means the one in eight theory does not apply here. You also can lay into late help all you want, some of them want to be fired so they can collect unemployment and work for someone else under the table. If they get sick of listening to you, they line themselves up a new job while they are picking up materials for you (networking).
I'm not saying everyone sucks, but there is a whole generation of landscape laborers in my area that never dealt with adverse hiring conditions. Lowest laborers start out at $12-$14 per hour and would just as soon get fired if their friends are going away for a long weekend and they can't take the day off to join them. They will have a job with someone else when they get back.
I agree with John, it is easier and better business to put up with it under these circumstances, than to fire people and wait four weeks to hire a replacement who will do the same thing.
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