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In order to make money in today's society where lawmakers try to implement policies to protect workers, the corporation continuously finds ways to save themselves some dollars by cutting coverage to its typical worker. This is exactly what McDonald's has done to its workers. 

She finds most of these jobs are physically and mentally exhausting. Employers overwork employees in return for low wages, few benefits, and minimal health care coverage.  She notes that it is not uncommon for many Americans trapped in the low-wage workforce to juggle two or three jobs to make ends meet.  Just like pretty much every secondary source site, it sums up the primary source and repeats the same information in a different manner. Employers abuse and take advantage of their workers, milking them for all they're worth. Big surprise. Who would have thought?

I agree with Evan in that this site gives evidence of all this, and it can all be tied to any one of these outside sources, as well as any one of our books that we have read. An example is Fast Food Nation, where the employees are treated poorly and kept down so they do not get payed much, and do not gain anything from the job.

The argument of who is in more risk of an occupational hazard: a McDonald's part time employee or the chain manager, it's a difficult decision to realize... of course, that was a sarcastic statement. Corporate giants and its executives have been indulging themselves in countless benefits including the benefit of proper health care while its typical kitchen employees struggle to keep up with quota demands set by greedy managers, providing an education for themselves and trying to raise children in order to maintain a family. This excerpt is clear proof of the sickening business ethics large corporations now follow: not to protect its workers, but rather the privileged who wallow in their own wealth.