JcDent

A T-55 experience

Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

RPGs, single player FPS, RTS and 4X, grog games.


Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.


Catholic, socialist, and an LGBT+ ally.


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Fortified Niche: a podcast covering indie miniature wargames
www.anchor.fm/fortified-niche
Grognardia: the current place to order my t-shirt designs [until I find a better one]
www.zazzle.com/store/grognardia

I'll reveal this after the break. But before that, a lot of issues the Cybertruck has seem to stem from it being artisanally assembled as if one had never heard of Ford or Kahn. Every problem and issue seems unique in a way that shouldn't be possible on an automated assembly line.

And if the comments are right...

4. Tesla factories have some of the HIGHEST rate of employees going in and out of their factories because they go through more employees in a month than anyone else in America - this is because they figured it would be best to hire people through temp agencies and then fire them about 1-3 weeks after starting their job and this is because it's cheaper for them to constantly hire new people than it is to keep them on long term.

...then the Cybertruck assembly area is an artisanal workshop with no masters and a constantly rotating cast of apprentices that are not allowed to become even journeymen.

It's like the reverse of the anecdote of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, which was produced artisanally in England - with skilled assembly masters fitting the best parts that fit with the rest - while the American version by Packard used a more modern approach and developed their version with much tighter tolerances.

Or maybe it's not the reverse and just a barely-related story I wanted to tell.


Blurry screenshot of a YouTube video where you can see the red warning that Tesla truck gives when it breaks down

I like the red warning sign, very cyberpunk.


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in reply to @JcDent's post:

I'm far from being a car connoisseur, but that is one ugly-ass car. It looks like a PS1 model. AND you're telling me it breaks down often?!

But yeah, sounds like a stupid system for car manufacturing where quality really suffers at the expense of greed.