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I did not mind the actual work or the kind of work, but it was the dishonesty and deception, the flattery and cajolery, the unnatural assumption that worker and diner had no common humanity.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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He expresses his disdain for the dishonesty and lack of humanity in the service industry.
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