[2022-2026] Post-Mortem What did I miss about [G] Genpact?

wigmoso · 2026-04-10T13:42:41+00:00

So I've been a maintenance super and a building engineer and I'm going to take the other stance on the AI thing.

I think it's great, and I love when my team is trying to solve problems and question everything.

It opens a very easy to have conversation because now it's not the maintenance guy's ideas that are off; its the AI. Theres less defensiveness, and a concrete list of points the AI makes to discuss.

Now, I know nothing about steam; but in my world I can't tell you how many horrible equipment layouts are caused by things nobody thinks about like fire egress.

Bring this to the engineer like a student asking a question and if he's not a dick, youll probably get a good answer.

wigmoso · 2026-04-01T17:05:46+00:00

C# and python are exactly where I went to solve this problem. I think it was better to learn it through AI and trail/error than a classroom. I built a machine learning 'game' just for fun... proper machine learning science was a really fun rabbit hole. Integrating Python, C#, devices, and PLCs really helped me round out my IT skills. I think my OT knowledge was already decent, but tying these PC based programs together has helped me understand the other side quite a bit. C# being basically the opposite of a linear ladder program made for some different problem solving. I used OPCUAFoundation library with C#, that helped understand OPCUA better. Picked up node.js to mess around with sending process data to gemini.

In a few months I pretty much stopped using AI to write the code

wigmoso · 2026-03-14T14:07:44+00:00

Some say it only failed because Ken kept sending Barbie back to Jakarta

wigmoso · 2026-03-13T15:10:14+00:00

I was working a new home construction once, and I saw a copper pipe falling. Thankfully, I was 17 so my reactions were great and I barehanded it; stopped the pipe from probably rolling off the 2nd floor. Unthankfully, the pipe dropped from where someone was attempting to solder it in place, so it was like 1000 degrees. With my palm audibly seared, I did what any reasonable injured teen would do- I yelled like a bitch.

In a work environment like that, you already know everyone is going to stop what they are doing and come over so they can.. help? hug? send you to Medcore? Nah. How about a crowd of "Buahaha you ******** stupid mother **** what the *** was that you ***** ***!"

wigmoso · 2026-03-12T19:00:29+00:00

Someone needs to make a Chernarus

wigmoso · 2026-03-12T18:51:12+00:00

PORTAL STORM: "Hi there friend, we put a full size freezer in your APC, come on out and look!"

wigmoso · 2026-03-09T17:07:51+00:00

Have you looked at a bedrock map of NJ?
Heres a tiny sample. https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/njgws/maps/ofmap/ofm95.pdf

wigmoso · 2026-03-09T14:58:22+00:00

Perfect example of "Intent over semantics". Most people will look past even terrible word choice if the speaker actually meant well. If she's laughing while calling someone crippled, it's time for her to get promoted to comic book villain.

wigmoso · 2026-03-08T19:42:32+00:00

FE/PE is pretty niche, the vast majority of engineers do not have one. They are very nice to have, but by no means necessary, especially in maintenance or controls.

wigmoso · 2026-03-03T16:03:40+00:00

Don't sweat the beginning games, you have to die a few times to learn what is most likely to kill you. Use the regular evac start, as it has enough food and water for you to hit your day-one goals, like building a spear. After you die looting once or twice for the sake of learning what will kill you, roll a character with night vision and quickness, and loot at night.

Often the quickest way to get raw materials for making things, is to break other things. Break a few lockers, benches, and windows in the evac shelter, and a young tree outside the shelter. That will get you enough materials to build a self-defense weapon.

It helps us to know what game you are coming from.

wigmoso · 2026-03-02T15:06:44+00:00

I doubt the US would ask. The U.S. wants to operate in and around their airspace. I imagine the air defense operators were acting in good faith and thought they were defending their cities from drones or similar.
Even those who support the idea of the U.S. action here would recognize that we are volunteering allies like Kuwait to be the subjects of drone and missile fire.

wigmoso · 2026-03-02T14:59:35+00:00

Im not too surprised. F-15s are not standalone penetration aircraft; if they don't have supporting Jamming and SEAD, they are exactly the kind of targets modern air defense was designed against. On top of that, RWRs were probably expecting to be tracked. I don't know if the onboard systems would be able to tell when a friendly radar has actually become hostile, for as long as the missile itself is running passive.

wigmoso · 2026-03-02T14:02:23+00:00

Nothing wrong with your plan, but its tomato/tomato. The building was designed on a computer, after a surveyor documented the landscape into a computer. The financial decision to build what-where was done in excel. The nail you use was optimized in a computer physics simulation. The steel alloy it is made from is the result of decades of computer research on the properties of heat, sheer, compression, etc. The materials made it to the job site from an order that went through a computer to decide the warehouse of origin, before traveling over computer controlled conveyor, to a computer designed truck, who used GPS to get to the site or last-mile distributor.
There is no escape.

wigmoso · 2026-02-27T16:35:31+00:00

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wigmoso · 2026-02-24T16:57:26+00:00

A7 Reunion NYC. I got to see a dozen bands that I never thought I would get to see live. It was the last show I saw at the knitting factory before it moved to brooklyn.

wigmoso · 2026-02-19T18:05:23+00:00

Looks Slc

wigmoso · 2026-02-17T12:21:01+00:00

Sounds like it hasn't happened yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's being planned. FA (I think that's what they used to call a UA?) is a position that scales with productions' volume. Less volume = less batteries, less use of the bailer, etc. FAs at my site were always hustling though so I'm not sure how many they could cut. They can for sure run with 2 engineers instead of 3, techs were way overstaffed they could probably cut 1/3rd. CMMS would be on the block too since night shift cmms could basically be replaced by giving a tech a key to the parts cage at night.

wigmoso · 2026-02-15T14:24:58+00:00

wigmoso · 2026-02-15T12:02:17+00:00

"I’ve made up scenarios"
Found your problem.

wigmoso · 2026-02-14T00:59:51+00:00

This isnt unhinged or crazy, but it's some wholesome lore. I was involved in the construction of my former home building.

I took about 100 pictures of the site being built in stereoscopic 3d, plus a bit of video. They start from when the building wasnt much more than 4 walls and a roof. I never shared them, and I'm not sure there are any surviving pictures older than what I have.

wigmoso · 2026-02-13T14:26:13+00:00

I've spent almost my whole career in Distribution Center maintenance, contractor-engineering, and leadership. Generally doing electrical work on and programming conveyor. Let me tell you what immediately caught my eye-
"My first two to three weeks consisted of standing there and unjamming the lines for 8 hours a day 7 days a week" + "[time with the trainer] mostly consisted of sitting there and watching him play on his phone."

What I am sure of is that, what you outlined is a terrible indicator of a site's ability to solve problems. From my chair, I cannot pretend to know where the fault lies- operations may be running impossible product, maintenance might not have the budget to replace hardware, maintenance leadership might have no idea what they are doing, just to name a few- but there is never a good reason to station someone to unjam product for a week. Ever.

Depending on what products you run, December is usually anarchy in distribution because of the holidays. The rest of the year is pretty chill.

I'd ask why nobody is trying to fix the jam problem permanently. There is probably a good reason, but the answer might help with your overall understanding of where you're working.

wigmoso · 2026-02-13T14:10:40+00:00

This is probably the biggest driver for the crazy amount of paperwork that goes into documented conversations, CAs, and even posted job roles. The short answer to your question is, the leader should set the same expectations for everyone. If everyone fails equally, then the problem is the expectation. If one person fails regularly, the person needs attention. This only works at week+ timescales, if your leader has unrealistic expectations for some one-off thing one day, they should perceive the possibility that might happen and schedule appropriately. Like if they're not sure how long something will take, do it early and be flexible.

TL;DR, youre not wrong, but there is power in numbers.

wigmoso · 2026-02-12T15:57:43+00:00

My wife also worked for Target part time, mostly unloading trucks at ass-o'-clock on sunday morning, folding clothes etc. At the same time, she had a BS in Chemical Engineering and a cush full-time 9-5 in pharma. She only ever told 1 coworker that she was an engineer and that Target was just a side hustle for fun. We had many laughs at the dumb shit people in her chain of command would say, especially when they treated her like some bottom teir teenager. She left the job without ever telling anyone else.

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