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TOPIC: ARGUMENT179 - The following is a memorandum written by the director of personnel to the president of the Cedar Corporation.
"It would be a mistake to rehire the Good-Taste Company to supply the food in our employee cafeteria next year. It is the second most expensive caterer in the city. In addition, its prices have risen in each of the last three years, and it refuses to provide meals for people on special diets. Just last month three employees complained to me that they no longer eat in the cafeteria because they find the experience 'unbearable.' Our company should instead hire Discount Foods. Discount is a family-owned local company and it offers a varied menu of fish and poultry. I recently tasted a sample lunch at one of the many companies that Discount serves and it was delicious-an indication that hiring Discount will lead to improved employee satisfaction."
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TIME: 00:30:00
DATE: 2011/1/14 20:38:57
The director proposes to the president of the Cedar Corporation that they should hire Discount, the local family-owned company rather than rehire the Good-Taste Company to improve employee's satisfaction. Though his argument sounds reasonable at first, however, after a reflection, I find its logic reasoning has fallacies and his points are footless.
The director fails to give us some evidence that the majority of their employees are not satisfied with Good-Taste, only three employees cannot delegate all of them. Chances are those three employees are foreigners and have a distinct taste, or they were not complaining the taste, but the service or the atmosphere, factors of which the director fails to convince us that Discount are better than Good-Taste. Even if the very three employees were complaining the taste, and the majority of the employees also dislike the taste in Good-Taste, we cannot indicate Discount's taste is better, for only a meal and only the director himself does not say anything. Besides, the varied menu of fish and poultry does not indicate its multiple the choices, maybe other food that they supplied is very short.
Second, the director mentions the increasing price in the last three year in Good-Taste Company, regarding it as a proof that Good-Taste Company is not competent. However, price rising, especially without a comparison, cannot indicate anything. Perhaps that area has been undergoing inflation, all the prices are increasing, or its higher price may still cheaper than other companies, especially the Discount Company.
Even if the price and taste in Discount is all better than in Good-Taste, this proposal is still not convincible, for he fails to compare Discount to other companies, it is likely that there are other companies much better than these two.
In sum, it would be so rash to accept this proposal, and to make it more convincible, the director should survey how many of the employees that dislike the Good-Taste, give statistics on prices in comparison with others, and substantiate the taste, price, atmosphere, service in Discount are really better that Good-Taste and other companies.
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