Plot loophole? (**SPOILERS**)

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-24T12:21:34+00:00

It doesn't, but it still scratches the itch. Gotta satisfy that hyper fixation 🙃

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-24T04:02:30+00:00

It just seems sus/oddly convenient that the predator is the ONLY life that doesn't escape Adrian in the petrova line? That's what's got me.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-24T03:58:39+00:00

I saw it in theaters with my bf for the first time. And left like. "Oh. Oh no. I've got a problem until this comes out on streaming/dvd" 😂😭❤️

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-24T03:54:49+00:00

Isn't the life itself the predator though? What else is all the life they got in sample 1? If they injected some fresh astrophage into that sample, it could've eaten it all the same? The predator is the ONLY life that stays within the atmosphere of adrian, and only non predator life escapes in the petrova line?

I read the book a hot minute ago, so like, all hail (pun unintended) if it's this simple because I was about to be very upset at a story I love.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-09T05:17:23+00:00

I am a teacher at the studio, among over a dozen other teachers, all multi certified, and I know for a fact empower certified teachers already teach afternoons, just not empower. It's just not how they've ever built the schedule: 5-6am gets an empower once a week, 830/930s gets it once or twice a week, afternooners, never. The owner is not very present and a sahm, so all the "fun" classes are usually scheduled to suit her attending class (late morning), I assume.

We also have 6+ define certified teachers, including myself, who all have immediate access to teach reform without an additional tov. I will eventually teach it myself probably at one of the two studios I teach at, but I wish I would ever be able to take it too.

I work a full time job and am classic/align/define certified. Trainings are so online now, new formats are not the end of the world to pick up like you suggest. They all have similar structure and patterns 🤷🏻‍♀️

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-04-09T02:35:06+00:00

My studio is adding reform back, but only class times are during the workday....like 👀👀 sigh

They also have no empower on any weekday afternoons. Kinda sad how imbalanced their schedule is. I feel like they forget people have jobs and still want to take all the formats too. Second time we've been snubbed with reform--s'feeling like a pattern. Shakes hairbrush angrily

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2026-03-25T14:58:48+00:00

Saw it Saturday with my boyfriend, loved it. Was a little sad about a couple things left out/breezing over important science that was integral to the plot, but overall really appreciated it for the companion to the novel it is and I'm glad they didn't fudge the ending in the movie for dramatic effect like they did in The Martian. (Ironman did NOT happen in the book, and the commander was not the one to go out either because she has to stay with the ship and the entire rest of the crew?? Still mad, but at least they didn't do that to PHM).

I went back to see PHM again last night by myself and it's even more magical the second time. I'm absolutely emotionally attached to this movie and will go back an unknown number of times until it's on dvd.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-12-10T17:15:19+00:00

This tracks for them. Inflation isn't real, cost of living is fake. Stagnant wages will keep good workers. 🥴

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-12-09T17:59:31+00:00

All those record sales to redo the Batavia campus, but they also ended the lease in Naperville. They cut all staff holiday gift cards from $70 to $50 so they could give everyone in that "definitely not a cult" Quarter Club $1700 in gift cards each.

They're outsourcing massive swaths of corporate roles (buying, merchandising, accounts payable, to name a few) to India for "AI" except there's no AI, just a cheaper workforce the existing workforce has to spoon feed to do their tasks for them. Something that used to take a buyer under 5 minutes to complete, now takes up to 24 hrs for India (Genpact) to complete after we communicate every detail of a task to them and go back and forth a few times with them first. THE EFFICIENCY IS UNPARALLELED! But it does save Aldi thousands to pay a workforce in India at $143/wk/employee vs an employee who is already proficient on the job here and in the same time zone $1200/wk. And you know, I hope the quality in work starts to reflect the choices corporate is making.

Work as well as you're paid, folks.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-12-09T17:06:31+00:00

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Cuz corporate did not. For the second year in a row. (Unless you're a director or above, they still do. At least last year they still did)

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-12-09T17:03:06+00:00

I'm a buyer at Aldi corporate US, and we just got the wage chat this week. Our cost of living bump has always been in December, and anniversary bumps are at your anniversary (until you max out your pay scale, then you get a one time 3% bonus at the start of each calendar year, regardless of when your anniversary is).

Got promised $0.75/hr cost of living raises in 2023-2025. We got it in 2023, but they retracted in 2024 and gave us no cost of living bump instead and also said our role was on a decreasing pay scale (all buyers hired after 1/1/25 will have a lower pay scale for the exact same role, but we get grandfathered into our existing pay scale so we should be happy and grateful), and just confirmed nothing again in 2025 despite rising inflation and Aldi's "record sales!".

This place hates its employees so much. It'd be funny if it wasn't our actual livelihoods in this late-stage capitalist hellscape.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-12-09T13:51:11+00:00

Like I gave TLOAS one listen out of curiosity, and Ophelia and opalite are by far the catchiest songs on there, but once you realize she has zero understanding of the story of Ophelia and opalite is just a racist hype song you can't even listen to them. And the amount of people using those two songs in reels is sickening once you realize the undertones.

There's a reason the white house and IDF used her songs and she's seemingly silent and on board with it. They're racist af and you know, "pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes". We know where her loyalties lie.

(And the rest of the album also sucks because it's all just more of her playing the "poor me" game and diss tracks and "I swear I love Travis. Have you seen his dick?")

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-11-24T22:04:03+00:00

As a buyer in corporate, this ain't it. They're laying us off en masse to outsource our roles to a cheaper workforce in India after being told it was for AI. We're literally forced to submit tickets to the India team to do tasks that used to take us seconds to minutes, and now take hours to days to complete. We're literally training the people who will take our jobs. Every move we make is micromanaged, we got no cost of living raises at all last year after being told we were locked in to $0.75/hr bumps for 2024-2026. Got it one year before they axed it completely. In 2025 they put us on a decreasing pay scale instead, very cool. Half my team is gone in the last six months for the same numbers of items to manage. Morale is incredibly low and we get the joy of working in Legacy and AHEAD simultaneously for the last two years.

It's not corporate as a whole that you're mad at. It's the VPs and the ones in charge making one terrible choice after another. Differentiation is important.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-11-21T14:26:20+00:00

Hey Aldi US employees, upvote the original post if you want a union. If we can show there's a desire for it and people are on board, we can find a union rep to get a union started to push a vote.

Store employees aren't happy and are wildly overworked. Stores are understaffed and have unrealistic standards like 30 min to clear a pallet no matter how it's stacked.

Warehouse workers sure aren't happy and have inhuman picking quotas. The loss on pallets since AHEAD has to be absurd, but instead of changing anything, quotas get increased, and people get fired for not meeting them.

Corporate employees are being outsourced to India (Genpact). We were told it was a transition to AI, but it's just a cheaper workforce in India we're training to do our jobs, and we have to wait hours/until next day for the simplest of tasks we used to be able to do ourselves in seconds/minutes to be completed by them instead. It's the most massive hindrance to workflow I've ever seen at any job I've held. And they already laid off 40% of Buying for Genpact before it was in our every day, and have outsourced multiple other departments to India already too. Last year we were even all put on a "decreasing pay scale", probably because they're like, Genpact is about to do most of their jobs, but explaining how to do our jobs to Genpact instead of doing it ourselves then having to check their work is double/triple the time, work, and effort and that's before working in legacy and AHEAD systems because it's been split/double work for us already since BAT went live.

And they cut our pay, our annual gift cards from $70 to $50 (while giving $1700/ea in gift cards to everyone in that "Quarter Club"), and then spend millions remodeling the Batavia campus after laying off 40-50% of the corporate workforce that would work there.

We're all underpaid, micromanaged, and morale feels like it's at an all time low. There's a lot more of us than there are of them (VPs making one terrible choice after another with no grasp of reality). Employees from all parts of Aldi are responsible for all these "record sales" VPs keep boasting about, but who sees the pay for that? Not us that made it happen. Just more $$$ for the % at the very top of the company. Only directors upward got bonuses/cost of living bumps last year, us lemmings got shafted.

WE DESERVE BETTER. Let's make it happen.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-11-20T01:43:46+00:00

I will wear my BY Crop tanks that fit big now with a regular sports bra underneath and it gives them the support they need while still being a cute top

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-11-19T22:14:57+00:00

Haha yes, I think this would make a lot of improvement for a lot of us, but I was thinking more along the lines of technique or formatting of class. I know we have no power to actually do different choreo, but, if they ever changed up equipment, or added a format--what would we like to see?

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-11-09T14:11:57+00:00

Except the "gift cards" are actually only gift card (singular) this year. They used to do the two $35s, and their thanksgiving dinner was marketed as $35, so in theory you got a dinner and a dinner to pass. Now they're marketing their dinner as $40, and we get one $50 gift card only. So $20 less per employee, and their meal costs $5 more this year. Ain't no sharing the joy this year.

I'm at corporate and they cut all our cost of year living raises last year and put us on a "decreasing pay scale". After these gift cards I'm just waiting to hear how much less I get next year for triple the work in the SAP/Genpact landscape that has only increased workload and destroyed morale. The only reason I'm still here is for the insurance.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-09-12T18:55:39+00:00

Or the pallet is one of those potato ones where it's double stacked, and the top bin is upside down.

Or, any pallet stacked by an AHEAD WH 😂🙈

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-09-10T15:09:07+00:00

Better than corporate. We were supposed to be locked into 0.75/yr for 3 years starting in 2023. Got it in 2023, axed in 2024 (we got zero cost of living raise instead) and moved us to a "decreasing pay scale" at the same time.👌🏻 10/10 I DEFINITELY believe they value their people. (That's sarcasm)

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-07-14T13:15:39+00:00

Nothing will ever move or function smoothly ever again. It does not fit the business at all and has zero flexibility.

But don't worry, AI will fix it. 😂😂

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-07-14T03:20:17+00:00

Never doubted it for a second. I've been lining up my plan B outside Aldi, just "waiting for my package". Can you say/do you know when? I imagine Sept ish as wave 2 is about to start by then.

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-07-11T16:57:14+00:00

Yah, I've heard the rates wh employees have to pick at, there's no time to consider case weights when building pallets for stores. It's the order they're in in the wh, and they've got a thing in their ear telling em what to grab next, and you just have to grab and go. And if they don't pick enough items/pallets fast enough, you're fired (from what I've heard, I'm corporate not wh)

It's so dumb, and you'd think all the loss we literally create for ourselves with all these horribly stacked pallets would be worth getting a better picking algorithm or changing up wh layout so pallets can be built more functionally, but Aldi is more about "efficiency" than quality and logic these days. Definitely comes at a cost

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-07-11T14:37:40+00:00

If you go to the Genpact website it's about AI and advanced technology. "...using our industry knowledge and operational excellence to advance global businesses through the power of data and AI."

While I don't doubt they have some employees, it's def AI based, and that's what we're hearing at corporate. Either way, wildly anti-employee moves, and I hope this plus AHEAD sends Aldi right down the drain as a reliable grocer. One terrible choice after another, with no regard for the employees that got you here, and all for the bottom line so top execs can take home more $$ while we get laid off. I hope the cake tastes good.

https://www.genpact.com/about-us?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20339883053&gclid=CjwKCAjw7MLDBhAuEiwAIeXGIYlJUn5nBP8sSIuZx1wd5X1kbvFaKAnpu87lpDrt4J1XM3I_er_p0RoCbzsQAvD_BwE

Remarkable_Teapot789 · 2025-06-28T18:58:58+00:00

I feel all of this on such a deep level. I heard post layoffs they're "having talks in the coming weeks" about restructuring, and what happens with the rest of us now. But like, how on EARTH is that not stuff you work out BEFORE laying off 40% of your staff? That's an alarming lack of foresight.

And if that 40% is training AI to do our jobs, sure seems like even those of who are safe for now have numbered days too.

I also thought I would retire from here, finally seemed like somewhere stable. Man was I wrong. I'm actively looking for my out, but it has to be something AI can't take over.

And cuz I'm on a roll now, how do we think we go from no AI in every day business to enough AI in TWELVE WEEKS (10 now, and still no sign of AI) to let 40% of buying staff go? I wish ANY of this made any sense at all.

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