Does anyone else see the show Undercover Boss as a manipulative contradiction?

I won’t mention the company or the episode – it does not matter. All the episodes are the same. Here is a synopsis:
The boss puts on a wig and/or facial hair and goes to work with the commoners. Along the way he finds out that one dedicated employee who has been working for the company for 15 years needs a working car so she can get her sick kid to the doctor but can’t afford repairs and tires that are needed so the car can pass inspection, forcing her to take the bus every day which takes 2 hours, ...and so on. Oh, by the way, she also points out some policy issued by corporate that is reducing quality and making her life even harder.
The boss then magically disappears and we are next shown the two of them dressed up and sitting in a fancy setting.
The boss reveals himself, thanks the employee for her dedication and ideas and magnanimously gives the dirt poor, but still loyal employee $15,000 to pay for her education, $10,000 for a car, and $5,000 to take her daughter to Disneyland. Both cry and both go home feeling good about themselves and each other. Really?!
Does anyone ever notice that the reason the hard working employee was poor in the first place was the low salary the boss paid? Is the boss really that out of touch that he does not know he is barely paying subsistence wages – and has been for 15 years? What about all the other hard working, dedicated employees?

And how are the personal conversations supposed to be real and secret when clearly there are a minimum of 4 cameras simultaneously covering all sides of the conversation? Is the show’s surveillance team that sophisticated? Do the photographers work for the FBI or CIA?
I know it is as fake as a Kardashian smile, yet I still tear up.
Do you?