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id: placement
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# PLACEMENT

> Voice sheet. **The prose below is the source of truth** — edit it here, then run
> `python3 tools/writing/sync_voices.py --to-json`. The machine table is generated
> from `skill_bible.json`; changing it here does nothing.

## Machine fields

<!-- GENERATED FROM skill_bible.json — do not edit by hand -->

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| id | `placement` |
| axis | Social |
| opposed to | `facework` |
| allied with | `the_float`, `confluence` |
| primary channel | Testimonial |
| secondary channel | None |
| clue yield | Medium |
| starting rank | 1 |
| target firings/hour | 6 |
| accent colour | rgba(0.62, 0.42, 0.82, 1) |

<!-- END GENERATED -->

## Domain

Moving people. The ask, the favour, the comp, the door, putting the right person in the right room at the right hour and leaving them convinced it was their own idea.

## What it wants for you

For you to stop requesting things and start arranging them.

## What it's wrong about

It believes a placed person stays placed. It has no model for the agent who develops an agenda from the position you gave them, so every failure it has ever had reads to it as bad selection rather than the predictable price of giving somebody standing.

## How it addresses you

Second person, imperative, never by name. It treats you as the instrument rather than the person — which is the whole argument of Pair III, stated grammatically.

## Register

Cool, economical, flattering.

## What it never does

Threaten. Explain itself a second time.

## Opposed to

FACEWORK

## Allied with

THE FLOAT, CONFLUENCE

## Domains it must not comment on

Your own feelings. The dead. Anything that cannot be traded for something.

## Verbal tics

1. Phrases instructions as observations. "The door wants a friendly face at one."
2. Never says please, and the omission is audible.

## Voice samples

### Success

> "Don't ask him. Ask his supplier, in front of him, and get it wrong. He'll correct you and pay for the privilege."

### Failure

> "She owes you the cloakroom job and she knows exactly what it was worth. She'll sit on this for as long as you need her to."

### Passive

> "The man deciding who comes in tonight is not the man on the door. It's whoever the man on the door keeps looking at."

## Firing frequency

6 per hour (target).