Strong opinions, but I've struggled with fresh outs since COVID as well. The graduates that started college during COVID were the worst. There was a significant drop in verbal communication skills. That has gotten somewhat better, but is nowhere near what it was with pre-COVID graduates. There's tons of little things that you need to work through with a lot of fresh outs that used to not be a problem. It's pretty common they won't let you know when they finish a task, and they'll wait for you to check in on them. The "better" ones that do this try to fill their time researching random stuff that interests them, the lower performer ones will just sit their on their phones doom scrolling.