this pretty much destroys all the worldly or zombie predictions that only twinkies will be around, heck in 20 years we'll have kids watching "silly" zombie movies from the turn of the century and going "whats a twinkie?"
Yeh I know that wonderful bakery smell. The Quizani bakery in Boston's south end used to have that, but not anymore.
Hooray for unions!I think I watched an HBO documentary on exactly that. They didn't close it, they sold it to new owners who proceeded to fire everyone in the union and hire new people.
True story -- I live in New York, and when I was younger I used to drive on The Deegan, a highway that passed right by the Stella D'oro cookie and cake factory. It smelled great. Then OSHO came in and made them vent the place such that there was no more delicious cookie smells wafting across the landscape. Then, a few years later their union workers went on strike for an entire year and as a result the current owners closed the factory entirely and moved to Ohio.
Now another union is going to kill off yet another company.
Grrr...
I love Twinkies! It reminds me of Zombieland. lolSnowballs! I hate Snowballs, not the taste, just the consistency!
I love Twinkies! It reminds me of Zombieland. lolSnowballs! I hate Snowballs, not the taste, just the consistency!
I think I watched an HBO documentary on exactly that. They didn't close it, they sold it to new owners who proceeded to fire everyone in the union and hire new people.
Whatever...I love Twinkies! It reminds me of Zombieland. lolSnowballs! I hate Snowballs, not the taste, just the consistency!
Tallahassee: "I HATE coconut, not the taste, the consistency."
Get it right SmallFry! :p
People still ate those?
Cosmic Brownies is where it's at, yo!
not cool, tho I haven't had a twinkie in a long time.
That's what happens when unions get greedy.
I'm all for worker's rights but some of these unions and their workers are straight up theives.
Unions used to be necessary, back when workers were getting screwed over all the time. They're irrelevant now, with the laws that protect employees. Their only purpose now is to screw companies out of as much money as they can, destroying businesses, and ou economy little by little in the process.
Yeah, the baker's union screwed themselves. They go on strike because of an 8% pay cut, instead they will be losing their jobs.Show Image(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/30317971.jpg)
Hooray for unions!
True story -- I live in New York, and when I was younger I used to drive on The Deegan, a highway that passed right by the Stella D'oro cookie and cake factory. It smelled great. Then OSHO came in and made them vent the place such that there was no more delicious cookie smells wafting across the landscape. Then, a few years later their union workers went on strike for an entire year and as a result the current owners closed the factory entirely and moved to Ohio.
Now another union is going to kill off yet another company.
Grrr...
Haha, some guy at my job brought in a box of twinkies today. I ate mine but probably should have sold it on Craigslist :D
Haha, some guy at my job brought in a box of twinkies today. I ate mine but probably should have sold it on Craigslist :D
Considering they've got an unofficial shelf life of ~15 years I think they'll be around for a long while...
Haha, some guy at my job brought in a box of twinkies today. I ate mine but probably should have sold it on Craigslist :D
Considering they've got an unofficial shelf life of ~15 years I think they'll be around for a long while...
25 days:
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp
Haha, some guy at my job brought in a box of twinkies today. I ate mine but probably should have sold it on Craigslist :D
Considering they've got an unofficial shelf life of ~15 years I think they'll be around for a long while...
25 days:
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp
can always freeze them
reading Cory Doctorow
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Unions used to be necessary, back when workers were getting screwed over all the time. They're irrelevant now, with the laws that protect employees. Their only purpose now is to screw companies out of as much money as they can, destroying businesses, and ou economy little by little in the process.
I don't really like twinkies, they're not bad, but they're not good either,
Haha, some guy at my job brought in a box of twinkies today. I ate mine but probably should have sold it on Craigslist :D
Considering they've got an unofficial shelf life of ~15 years I think they'll be around for a long while...
Not accepting an 8% pay cut, 17% health care cut and massive pension cuts makes them thieves? Why isn't that statement turned to the upper management, who somehow received an 80% pay raise while in Ch11 bankruptcy? Or the fact that 8 different management groups couldn't make the company profitable for over a decade?
I'm not exactly happy to see what's turned into an icon shut its doors, but it's irresponsible and frankly juvenile to blame the union that blocked a bad deal.
The bakers union has rules requiring that Hostess use two trucks to make deliveries to a single location: one for cakes, and another one for bread. When Hostess filed for bankruptcy, the company insisted that its labor costs and union rules were unsustainable, and it moved to renegotiate the contracts. One work rule required that two separate trucks be used to ship bread and cake products to a single retailer. The company also indicated that it faced $52 million in workers’ compensation claims.
DiNapoli's auditors calculated that the shift manipulation for 28 of the 30 employees in the Unit cost Metro-North $991,208 in overtime and $216,128 in pay for rest shifts in 2010. For six of these employees, the additional payments inflated future projected pension benefits by $5.5 million. One worker was able to increase his projected total pension amount by $1.5 million above what would have been earned at his regular salary.
interesting tidbit i just heard about the mta, the fare only covers 50% of the cost, forget where the other half get's paid from taxes?
plus i don't believe a factory work should receive anywhere near 16 to 20, it's not like it's mindblowing work, a min wage mcdonald's employee could do the same work with 1 week of training (and i use mcdonald employee cuz of my experience with it like 10 years ago, i mean you give anyone 40hours of training, and they can work any machine and/or process depending on how difficult it is, you scale it up from min wage)
and about min wage, why is it there? it's a silly thing, it should be abolished, it's even silly to think that anyone can live on min wage anyway, besides min wage in ny is not gonna take you as far as like wyoming or whatever mid west state.
however, unions are probably a necessity, usually companies who have the bigger voice villianize unions, unions and management is like a seesaw, sometimes mgtment wins sometimes the unions win, but without this necessary seesaw people would get worked over, and of course the usual thing to say is, well get another job, which is not something that can be said once you have a family,mortgage and 2 cars.
anyway look at walmart, no unions there, i actually talk to the employees at my walmart (cuz i live out in the middle of nowhere and i only have walmart) and they're generally ok, i mean i see the same ppl, working the same shifts, so i assume something is working. Of course i only shop there at odd hours of the day, cuz the horrible store decides that 2 cashiers out of the possible 24 open slots is good enough for ppl and ppl should just wait in the checkout line for 1hr,
i mean heck if unions had their way, they'd only have 1 cashier.
What are those chocolate muffins with creme filling? Those are whats really good at hostess.