For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu
The article “For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu” is a research on the unfair, unsafe, and underpaid issues in the restaurant business. There are many dangerous jobs that only pay minimum wage , and people deserve to be paid more considering the fact of all the harsh conditions they work under. Some faced verbal abuse on the job because of they're low income and different backgrounds. The author uses Ethos by giving statements from different interviewers that experienced the unfair treatment as an actual employee. For example “ ..he’ll get a second job in the kitchen usually prepping salads, for no extra pay” “paying your dues quietly is how to move up in a kitchen,” …show more content…
“ He worked more than 80 hours a week there, schlepping 200-pound sacks of flour from the Kitchens basement storage area, cleaning the restaurant after hours, even maintaining its air filters and electrical system” Many workers go through these extreme situations everyday in the restaurant business because they feel that they don’t have any authority to speak against this treatment. “ For this, Lopez was paid $5 an hour and never overtime..I didn’t speak English and didn’t have legal documents ,..I assumed I had no rights at all.” Managers in the restaurant business are making their employees/people in poverty feel that they are being taking advantage of because of the harsh treatment and abuse they face …show more content…
Ethos refers to the credibility of a speaker and competence, trustworthiness. Trustworthiness helps the audience perceive a speaker to be presenting accurate, credible information. For and audience to believe your claims you have to give them something to believe so, you use emotional effects which is pathos, and you give facts that have been proven already by someone in the past which is logos, and you have to present with authority which means you need to have someone that has either witnessed a situation or has been through the situation your are presenting Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are commonly used together to present a stronger claim. In this case the author used these three rhetoric appeals to convey the message that people who work in restaurants work way to hard to receive the treatment that they receive. He also is implying that they deserve to be paid more than what they receive. Working in restaurants also makes it hard on the employees families because they’re having to work long shifts in order to receive the money that they need to provide for their families, and its taking time away from their
The article “For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu” is a research on the unfair, unsafe, and underpaid issues in the restaurant business. There are many dangerous jobs that only pay minimum wage , and people deserve to be paid more considering the fact of all the harsh conditions they work under. Some faced verbal abuse on the job because of they're low income and different backgrounds. The author uses Ethos by giving statements from different interviewers that experienced the unfair treatment as an actual employee. For example “ ..he’ll get a second job in the kitchen usually prepping salads, for no extra pay” “paying your dues quietly is how to move up in a kitchen,” …show more content…
“ He worked more than 80 hours a week there, schlepping 200-pound sacks of flour from the Kitchens basement storage area, cleaning the restaurant after hours, even maintaining its air filters and electrical system” Many workers go through these extreme situations everyday in the restaurant business because they feel that they don’t have any authority to speak against this treatment. “ For this, Lopez was paid $5 an hour and never overtime..I didn’t speak English and didn’t have legal documents ,..I assumed I had no rights at all.” Managers in the restaurant business are making their employees/people in poverty feel that they are being taking advantage of because of the harsh treatment and abuse they face …show more content…
Ethos refers to the credibility of a speaker and competence, trustworthiness. Trustworthiness helps the audience perceive a speaker to be presenting accurate, credible information. For and audience to believe your claims you have to give them something to believe so, you use emotional effects which is pathos, and you give facts that have been proven already by someone in the past which is logos, and you have to present with authority which means you need to have someone that has either witnessed a situation or has been through the situation your are presenting Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are commonly used together to present a stronger claim. In this case the author used these three rhetoric appeals to convey the message that people who work in restaurants work way to hard to receive the treatment that they receive. He also is implying that they deserve to be paid more than what they receive. Working in restaurants also makes it hard on the employees families because they’re having to work long shifts in order to receive the money that they need to provide for their families, and its taking time away from their