Piltdown - if you had a good education and had a choice of working in an office for good money with a fair chance of career growth..... or working for little more than the minimum wage with little or no chance of career growth, what would you choose ?
Security bods are nothing more than people who need to earn a living.
If we want as society to pay security naff all.... then can't expect them to give a particularly good service to punters in return