I'm pretty sure that if any employer were paying me to perform specific tasks of which I repeatedly failed at or repeatedly made the same mistake without learning anything and generally applied a perfunctory attitude, that employer would consider me to be stealing a wage.
It isnt daft at all to expect standards from contracted workers who demand high wages from you.
This logic is continually applied to low level wage workers, who are off down the road when their levels of productivity are deemed inferior.
If players were signed to perform at this level yet are somehow unable to work at this level, they are absolutely stealing a wage.

That might sound unreasonable to some. However, it's the harsh reality for a majority of people in the world..
Our position is about right. I can happily agree we're a mid table mediocre club. That's where I believe we'll finish.
I've no idea why we're even discussing playoffs with this squad, though.
Whilst other teams are struggling to find any real form they do at least have capable squads which are underperforming.
After the Steel city derby all playoff delusions will be put to bed. Possibly sooner.
I think Huddersfield were the only team to be promoted through the playoffs with a negative goal difference?
Wednesday, have a mediocre bunch who are easily found out and exploitable. Players who lack a solid work ethic. That's why it's so easy to get between our defenders. They simply don't want the ball as badly as the opposition forwards You see this time and again.
No other team in this league caves like Wednesday's defence, maybe Plymouth?
We'll be okay overall. There's very little threat of relegation this season. The issue, as always is where are the improvements going to come from? How do we expel the excrement on payroll and how do we make certain that no further incompetent, useless or incapable footballers are signed?
Gassama was booked for simulation. He stupidly simulated and he deserved the yellow for it.
However, I've seen a minimum of six instances of simulation this season. Two instances inside the box (I believe one was a Coventry player last week) and NOT ONE of the offenders were booked by the referees.
Why is it that as soon as Wednesday apply the same dark arts we see other teams apply, it's immediately punished?
I'm sure it's just another one of those coincidences..
"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius