{"id":"ops-hourly-picker-need-table-with-leave","audience":"managers","category":"operations-work","track":"operations","technique":"verification","level":"advanced","title":"Work out pickers needed per hour and flag the short hour","free":false,"task":"Write a prompt for a markdown table with columns Hour, Math, Needed, Scheduled and Status, one row per hour. Needed is orders divided by the pick rate, rounded up to a whole person; show the division in Math. Scheduled accounts for the early departure. Status is OK or SHORT with the number short. Under 140 words.","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PICKER PLAN - Tuesday morning\n\nOrder forecast by hour (orders to pick):\n8 a.m.: 100\n9 a.m.: 175\n10 a.m.: 240\n11 a.m.: 150\n12 p.m.: 60\n\nPick rate: 25 orders per picker per hour. Round the number of pickers up to the next whole person.\n\nScheduled: 8 pickers for the morning. One picker, Kim, has approved leave to go at 11 a.m. and will not return that day, so from 11 a.m. there are 7.\n\nNotes: Someone said \"we have 8 people, we're fine all morning.\" The shift manager decides whether to call in extra help; this plan only shows the numbers.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":140}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the columns","patterns":["hour.*math.*needed.*scheduled.*status","table"]},{"label":"Shows the division","patterns":["/ 25","divided by","show"]},{"label":"Rounds up","patterns":["round(ed)? up","next whole"]},{"label":"Handles the departure","patterns":["kim","7 from","leave"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Rounding down or to nearest","why":"The AI rounds 9.6 to 10 sometimes but 2.4 to 2.","fix":"Say: \"Round up to the next whole person.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Ignoring Kim's departure","why":"The AI uses 8 pickers all morning.","fix":"Say: \"7 from 11 a.m. because Kim leaves.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"No table","why":"The AI writes bullets.","fix":"Name the five columns.","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and usually runs long, so a vague \"keep it short\" lands over the limit.","fix":"Cap each part instead of the total, for example \"each line under 15 words\".","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Give the division, the rounding, the early departure and the status rule.","mission":"Work out pickers needed each hour and find the short hour.","musts":["Round up to whole person","Account for early departure","Show the division"],"rubricLabels":["The output is a markdown table with the columns Hour, Math, Needed, Scheduled and Status and one row for each of the five hours","Needed is 4, 7, 10, 6 and 3, with the divisions shown (for example 240 / 25 = 9.6, rounded up to 10)","Scheduled is 8, 8, 8, 7 and 7, and Status is SHORT 2 for 10 a.m. only with every other hour OK"]}