The standing assignment terminations come through at the end of the week. Moen processes them on Friday afternoons. There are usually two or three. Today there is one.
She opens the file. Life witness assignment, reference 6-SL-2817, standing duration six years, witnessee age 51, assigned witness age 44. Assignment terminated: retirement request. She reads through the occasion log. Forty-seven occasions over six years. Types: departure, diagnosis, decision, reconciliation, ending, unspecified.
There is a protocol for archiving the legacy record. Moen follows it: occasion count, duration, completion status, brief summary. She writes the summary from the log. Under Outcome of standing assignment, she types: Completed. Witness retired.
The system prompts: File for archive? She clicks yes. Reference 6-SL-2817 closes.
She has been processing these for fourteen years. She has processed approximately 4,200 assignments, if the averages hold. She has never filed one under her own name.
She pulls the next request. It is an intake for a decision occasion, this evening, six-hour window. She routes it to the on-call roster.