Hostess makers of the Twinkie to go Bankrupt ?

[ProfessorProfessorson]

[Arkhan]

I loled.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

I loled.

I know, right?

[Arkhan]

[nodtveidt]

It seems Walmart workers are on strike right now too.

[Senshi]

Yes you heard me no more hohos or twinkies
http://www.hostessbrands.com/Closed.aspx

Good they are both shit

[MotherGunner]

Hard Justice should be reserved for Judges.

all the normal people have to be a bit flexible with whats right/wrong.


Yeah, the company is f*cking their asses raw.

But at the same time, having no money for the holidays is also going to f*ck your ass raw.

and your families or whoever are going to be all like yo dang, this christmas present is lame.  y u no money.

This.

This is exactly what I was telling my wife;  She is part of a union.  People deserve pay that is decent enough to live on.  However, in her particular situation she is a part of a union, meaning that even if she is doing okay for herself, she would be required to strike should the union opt to.  I suspect a similar sitation played out at Hostess where not everyone was wanting to strike but the union made the call TO strike.  So tell me how f*cked up it would be if you weren't "feeling" the strike in the first place and now all of a sudden you're f*cked out of your job too? Right before TG/Christmas?  With kids at home, mortgage, car payments, medical bills, etc?  Talk about wanting to walk 100 yards into the woodline with a Smith and Wesson to put yourself out of your misery....

[Bernie]

MotherGunner, you are correct.  If you are union, and the majority vote to strike, you are out with them.  Of course, you can always cross lines to come to work anyway, but that gets dangerous. 

[Arkhan]

If they voted to strike I'd just sit on my ass and eat twinkies and go YEAH STRIKE.  YEAH! and use the sign to smack away all the people who want my twinkies.

[Bernie]

If they voted to strike I'd just sit on my ass and eat twinkies and go YEAH STRIKE.  YEAH! and use the sign to smack away all the people who want my twinkies.

lol.  Always bringing the humor.  I like that. 

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Its stupid to me that you have so many out there not really concerned for the workers well being at all, or for that matter that some have treated this matter as more important then like the aftermath from Sandy. You have people scrambling everywhere buying up as many twinkies and cupcakes they can find like they will never have a chance to stuff their fat f*cking faces again on junk food. Its some of the most retarded bullshit ever. Its not like this stuff was high quality to begin with, and there's generics out there that taste just as good (if you want to call it all good in the first place). All in all its just one giant stupid mess.

[Arkhan]

I went to the Hostess outlet near me on a whim yesterday.  omfgwtf is all I can say.

I laughed at a$$holes on ebay selling twinkies that were "FOR A GOOD CAUSE!", for like 100,000$.

The only thing I'll miss are raspberry zingers.  They'll be back though. They're just f*cking twinkies soaked in sugar and covered in coconut shavings.  It's not rocket science.   

Swiss Cake rolls suck ass though.   The chocolate has a really strange taste.  I'll eat them, but they don't taste nearly as good as hohos or dingdongs, which are just flat hohos.  In other parts of the country, there are companies with the same damn food.  Yodels or some shit, I think is what they are called?  There are DingDong equivalents too.  and Suzi Qs are just devils food cake full of angel semen. 

Its all stupid though.  Right before Thanksgiving, you have jackasses trying to rip people off with snacks.

I still think the strike was really poorly planned, even though it was done for a valid reason.  They should have timed that shit a bit better.  The collective voters are a bit dense in that regard. 

Strike AFTER the holidays!  The job itself isn't changing in the next ~month.   Just the shit pay/benefits/whatever.

I could be wrong because I have never done union shit, but I mean, you get no money if you're striking and circle jerking outside, right?  They could've worked through the holidays, got paid, and then strike on like Jan 1st, right?



Also, really, twinkies are best at 3am next to a bag of Funyuns and a few cans of coke while you're playing Ultima Online.    99% of these f*ckers complaining about twinkies don't even know what the real experience is like. 

[Bernie]

Well, maybe those a$$holes will get what they deserve.  I heard on the news today that Hostess is reconsidering their decision.    We will see what unfolds.  As far as the taste of those things, I havent had a Hostess product in as long as I can remember....  But it damn sure aint worth more than the sticker price on the box. 

[Opethian]

I think it was the judge that said they cannot file for bankruptcy and they should  find other ways to call the union bluff...

[nodtveidt]

Hey, I've got a novel idea...

-Cut the EXECUTIVES' PAY by 300%
-Use the saved money to upgrade the remaining factories for better efficiency
-Pay the f*cking pensions
-Keep the employee pay where it is but don't f*cking cut it because that's shitty
-Renegotiate with the materials suppliers; this is half their production cost woes
-Fix the f*cking recipes! The current crop of products SUCK! Go back to the way they were before
-Reduce product cost by 5%; it will result in more sales and better penetration, and with the increased efficiency raising product throughput, profits will increase
-Invest more money in R&D like they did in the before-time... introduce better new products to keep people interested
-Carpet-bomb the advertising agencies with new promotions that promote said new products

...as a start.