342 Comments

Lulling us into a sense of complacency before the MGT stupidity story.

Expand full comment

LOL, a friend who was in Weight Watchers some years ago used to save up her fruit points so she could have 2 or 3 glasses of wine at night!

Expand full comment

Now I want dodectuple-stuffed Oreos.

Expand full comment

Things are supposed to go on top of the Ritz cracker.

Expand full comment

Don't tease us like that!

Expand full comment

FYI Keebler Townhouse crackers substitute well for Ritz crackers.

Expand full comment

Just be ultra careful not to lose the clots! No gargling, flossing, I'd even be careful brushing. Dry sockets is where the throbbing pain begins.

Expand full comment

They're not like Twinkies. Oreos don't last forever.

Expand full comment

Ernie uses child labor.

Expand full comment

And Oreos can't save the world!

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Expand full comment

Oh Rachet Campos-Duffy, isn't it time for you to squeeze out another babby for the nanny to care for while you show the world just how ignorant you are?

Expand full comment

I remember when parents got their microwave.Mom: "Now don't listen to your father, this is how you use it."Dad: "Now don't listen to your mother, this is what you do."

Expand full comment

I'm thinking more like a blue whale on a bike.

Expand full comment

My guess is that a lot of their workers tend automated production lines, so their primary drain is attentiveness, not physical exertion. Shift changes in that environment cost money (cookies), and it's a safe bet that the extra 4 hours of pay per worker per week costs less than the production loss across a shift change.

Let's say they can pull off an extraordinarily efficient 1-hour shift change downtime - that'd be one hour per day making dog-only-knows how many cookies and crackers. At the scale they must run, an hour of downtime is a truckload of $$.

And, as noted below, I've known people on back-to-back 12x3 low-exertion shifts, meaning they work 6 days and have 8 off, and they were pretty happy with the arrangement.

Expand full comment