The recruitment board had more names than the workshop had stations.
Tamsin read the first six while Joss Kern laid out the equalizer pieces. Rina Tal checked the tools she had brought through inspection and kept her own case beside the borrowed assessment stock.
Clean assembly. Measured fastening. Rated lifting. Records. Controlled tests.
The tasks occupied different columns because willingness did not make them the same work.
Felix penciled the keenest volunteers beside the longest list.
“Which experience have you checked?” Tamsin asked.
He moved the names back to the possible column and asked the first worker what he had actually done.
Hessa Holt arrived carrying a condenser shift sheet.
