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here is your pay floors scrubbing my floors

put the piano over there

thank you so much for the clothes

morrison starts off by scrubbing the floors

"I knew how to scrub floors on my knees and how to wash clothes in our zinc tub,"

Morrison starts doing harder labor like pushing piano's

"I was ordered to carry bookcases upstairs and, once, to move a piano from one side of a room to the other."

the boss starts offering morrison clothes but for money

"She began to offer me her clothes, for a price". 

adkison's role given to him was dishes because all new workers start from dishes

On my first night, the dishes piled up after the dinner rush: plates, silverware, cups and oily black deep-dish pans, which came clean only with a lot of soap and scrubbing in steaming-hot water.

adkison complaining about having to do the dishes and jeff telling him to not complain and he would eventually start on tables

I asked Jeff when I could do something different. “Do you know why you’re still doing dishes?” he asked. “Because you keep complaining about it.” Nobody likes to work with a complainer, he said. But, he promised, if I continued to leave a clean station and not complain, next week he would put me on the “make table,

jeff insisted that adkison send in his application

He opened a drawer and took out an overnight envelope. He told me to stop what I was doing, leave work and send the application immediately.