1. Having a Companion
I work in HR for a call center. The entire company has around 500 employees, and maybe 250 of them are in the call center. Entry-level work, a tiny bit more than minimum wage. A girl started her first week doing really well and then week two got really weird. She walked into the CEO’s office (on another floor in the building) WHILE HE WAS MEETING WITH SOMEONE, to demand that he buy her a dog because she thought having a companion would improve her work performance. That was the entirety of her rationale.