The drama continues.
A New York Judge has ordered Hostess and the kamikaze baker’s union to at least try working this out, but I think it’s too late.
Some of our own local businesses that use Wonder Bread (Arthur Bryant BBQ being one) are already being forced to switch to alternate vendors. Grocery stores also aren’t going to let that prime shelf space sit empty while this drags on, are they?
For his part, Rayburn seems delighted to stick his tongue in the creme-filling and go “nuh nyuh nuh”:
While Hostess has seen interest in pieces of the business, its labor contracts and pension obligations have deterred offers for the whole company, Chief Executive Officer Gregory F. Rayburn said last week.
“We will try to get what we can from the assets,” Rayburn told Bloomberg Television. “It’s an over-capacity industry, though, so that’s going to be a difficult prospect.”
Translation: “No responsible buyers want to put up with you idiots or try to sell the products that you make at needlessly high prices caused by your fat compensation and stupid rules.”
Speaking of insults, the Resources page on the Twinkies.org website (Note: not an official Hostess website) got hacked at some point today. “Were you smart enough to get a screenshot, Thrill?” Why, yes, I was!
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TxAg94 says:
November 19, 2012 6:21 pm at 6:21 pm (UTC -4)
Hey, I think that hacker is an IT guy at my old company…At least that soundslike what he used to tell me.
Kimpost says:
November 19, 2012 6:39 pm at 6:39 pm (UTC -4)
The twinkies-hack was so silly that I actually laughed. “Fuck bitches get money”. Hmmm…..
Thrill says:
November 19, 2012 6:48 pm at 6:48 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, “Sell Bread, Make Dough” was a Wonder Bread mission statement at one time. The hacker seems to have made his own version.
At least there’s no hard feelings there….
Anonymous may have not had anything to do with this one.
Miguelito says:
November 19, 2012 6:51 pm at 6:51 pm (UTC -4)
Based on the fantastic prose, it looks to me like someone was seriously lame on their IT staff and some script kiddie waltzed in.
Thrill says:
November 19, 2012 8:12 pm at 8:12 pm (UTC -4)
Given that it’s been up there for several hours, I suspect that the IT Department was hit with layoffs already and somebody may have made a Parthian shot with this act.
Miguelito says:
November 19, 2012 11:13 pm at 11:13 pm (UTC -4)
Good point Thrill. In fact, someone doing it on the way out and changing passwords (or just having been the only one that knew the passwords on that box) would explain why it stayed up so long. Seems fixed now though.
Section8 says:
November 20, 2012 12:10 am at 12:10 am (UTC -4)
Thrill,
This site isn’t part of Hostess.
Oh yeah, and Suzi Q’s rock bitch!
or at least they did…
Thrill says:
November 20, 2012 7:43 am at 7:43 am (UTC -4)
Oh, you’re right. I saw all the corporate logos all over it and never thought to read the disclaimers. My guess is that Hostess really is ate up if they couldn’t even get that shut down.
Corrections will be made and I will begin with the self-flogging.
And Suzi Q’s are hockey pucks. To paraphrase the Pirate Captain, eating a Zebra cake is like “being sucked off by an angel.”