Assuming this story is correct I do wonder about some of the kids today. They're given totally unrealistic expectations either by their teachers or they just pick up some wrong info from the crap TV they watch and their assumptions are as bad as their maths skills and they make 2 + 2 come to some wild fantasy figure.
I know when my daughter was doing her Business Studies A Level she had to prepare a business case on setting up her own business. When I scanned over it and looked at her forecast figures I questioned her on the £30,00 salary she'd allocated from the jumble of figures!! "Well I'm not going to work for less than that am I?"
Couldn't get it through to her that you would work for peanuts if you were setting up your own business from scratch. It seemed that her teacher had instilled in them all in the class that this was what you should be expecting from the workplace, rather than what you should be aspiring to..
Needless to say she failed her A Level (although she and many of her ilk still think she passed, as she got a D - what is it with this 'D & E Grades are still PASSES' nonsense??!
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(However, as a side note, she didn't go to Uni like all her other pals. Instead she went straight into paid work with a local employer and has done well for herself and been promoted a number of times and is now within sight of that fantasy figure, while her Uni mates are struggling to get any sort of work to pay off their debts.... Funny old game this Uni lark)