Tiger arbitrarily ends up on the canopy folding team.

Tiger will at this point notice the gender-ratio in their group, and in the general social caste of teenage hirelings, is almost exactly even. She does not immediately have a good theory that predicts this.

Either the manual labour needs physical strength and they'd prefer boys, or one sex would respond more readily to a short-term job advertisement and it'd probably still be boys, or there'd be some kind of meaningful filter which would impose some kind of sex-bias or other?

Almost exactly even is weird. It implies either they ended up here truly at random and her apparent free choice was an illusion, or they were going for that on purpose.

They have ceremonially removed and folded the first canopy, timing themselves at each step to make sure their plan makes sense.

There are some little ropes attached, they need to tie it into a bundle?

How are we supposed to get it onto the trailer though?

The whole thing weighs maybe twice as much as Tiger does?

Two of the boys pick it up by the rope ties and throw it onto the trailer together.

It's visibly effortful, but not particularly challenging.

Oh.

Wait why am I being used as a unit of mass

Spoon is only 1.09 Tigers old, and despite boys typically being no taller on average than girls at around this age, typically having growth spurts later, Spoon is already 1.14 Tigers tall.

He speaks in a pitch only 0.63 Tigers high, saying

Tiger is confused about how people who could throw her without significant effort adults and people in the same social category as her children wait no she's not a child anymore she's in a new social category

Tiger is confused about why she should care about these people for their individual characteristics if she's nearly certainly not going to see them again after five days.

Tiger checks and yes she's pretty sure she shouldn't be expecting to see them again after the week, unless she actively tries otherwise.

Tiger attempts to anticipate the probable consequences of treating her new temporary classmates coworkers normally. Tiger exposes the anticipated consequences to her feelings for review. Tiger's feelings are not particularly upset but feel some utility is being missed here.

Tiger attempts to anticipate the consequences of a representative sample of not particularly unTigerly alternative behavioural patterns. Her feelings are not rating those any higher.

Tiger starts querying her feelings if they've got any behavioural patterns in particular they'd like to endorse, before she infers and gets back to them about the consequences of actually doing them. Probably her feelings are imagining something possible here that is not actually possible, and are mad she's not proposing a strategy to get it.

Tiger's feelings raise an exception with an undecipherable error message she'd have to get back to later.

Tiger visibly looks like she is thinking about something.

Does she have a thought she wants to share with the group?

Meta-Tiger notices that Tiger response times have suddenly skyrocketed at an inopportune moment. She is in the middle of a social situation.

Meta-Tiger exposes her current social situation to her internal Tiger model, directly. Her internal Tiger model does not raise any feelings-based objections to its first-order solution to the social situation. This represents an inconsistency between Tiger's model of Tiger and actual Tiger, who did get feelings-based objections she has not already categorized and resolved.

Meta-Tiger's rapidly spun up Tiger model outputs the decision that, in this social situation, the correct action is to speak aloud an optimal strategy for how eight people can most efficiently take down and pack up eightly huge mostly-but-not-quite square canvas canopies, and also she has a time limit and should not first be trying to do complicated meta-Tiger activities like resolving internal consistency errors.

Meta-Tiger can run with that. Meta-Tiger confiscates all cognitive resources to spin up the more pure and mathematical Tiger, ordinarily reserved for math tests. That Tiger logically deduces the solution, with a nice though informal proof so as to get full marks.

Meta-Tiger pipes the solution out of Tiger's mouth as it forms, just barely within the bounds of permissible response times for ordinary conversation. It's correct right? Yes. Great. Crisis averted.

You can have your brain back now.

Please don't do that again.

Where did all these memory issues come from? I was using that memory.

Is there a log of what I was thinking about before?

Also what did I just say?

The other seven hirelings nod along in agreement.

It seems the most sensible approach.

They're breaking up into two teams of four, one will take the bolt-removers and go ahead removing bolts, more quickly because they can do every pillar at the same time. They're also going to do the first two folds, half over and then half over again, to make it smaller and more manageable and because this way they won't get far ahead of the other team and create a backlog or have canopies blown away if the wind starts to pick up.

The second team will straighten it out, because it's still possible to do that after two folds if you can grab all four corners at the same time, do the second two folds, roll it and tie it up.

The canvas canopies are heavy and will make driving slower and more annoying, so they'll leave everything bundled on the ground until they're done taking stuff down. They'll be two teams again on the way back collecting them up. They have to drive back anyway to return to the depot, the stops will be very brief, and it'll give them a chance to alternate work and rest and limit tiredness.

It's a good plan. They test it on the second canopy and can do it fast enough so long as everyone knows who is on which corner.

It takes them five hours to finish and now Tiger is all Tigered out.

The wind has been slowly picking up the whole time, though not enough to be directly a problem.

She now gets to ride back in the buggy for an estimated thirty minutes while two boys pick up the canopy bundles?

Not if she wants a good performance review she doesn't.

If she's not strong enough to help lift them into the trailer, she could drive the buggy?

That way everyone else can sit on the trailer and grab them much more quickly as they go past.

Tiger is not qualified to operate a vehicle.

Tiger was told she didn't need any qualifications.

It doesn't count if you're only driving on a beach.

Its speed is capped at an average person's run. You can't really lose control here.

This is how you make it go, this is how you make it stop, this is how you turn.

You'll be fine.