“Every single one of these people I talked to were saying: ‘I don’t know how I can maintain this face of joy and warmth when I have to go home and forage for food in other people’s garbage’,” she recalled
You have to wonder why anyone would continue to work there.
If that is what they actually said, you also have to wonder why somebody with such command of descriptive language is working as a custodian in the hot sun instead of on the phone in client services.