I saw this author on the Oprah show a long time when her book first came out. Now she has a new book out, so I decided to get her first undercover book. She worked at a Wal-mart at the same time I did, but my city was smaller than hers. She had many struggling to get by people working at her store. I had mostly teens, young adults just out of school like me living with their parents, and wives with husbands making twice as much as they did so this was just extra cash. The only workers at my Wal-mart considering it a career were management. Though after reading her maid service cleaning procedures in Maine that I decided to avoid hiring a maid service (if I'm ever rich enough to) because they don't clean anything and just move germs from one place to another while giving the illusion of being clean with air fresher. My Mom would freak reading them using a 1/2 bucket of water to clean a floor on their hands and knees without knee pads. She would be appalled at a moist towel wiping everything in sight without ever being wash in soap and water as term "cleaning".
The author often tried to be Joan of Arc trying to get these coworkers of hers to protest their horrible working conditions and lousy pay. "Unionize!" she cried at Wal-mart. Let me explain that we poor people give ourselves promotions into better wages and benefits by handing in our two-week notice with a better job already lined up. I was very amused at Cinderella being knocked off her high horse. The funniest part is the reason she did this experiment was to see how to get people off welfare and into the work force. What secrets did the working poor know that she can share with the world? Guess what: many of those welfare people being shunned are in the work force and that is why they are on welfare. A very interesting book. I was laughing at her all the way through it. I highly recommend it.
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