Also, don't think of the ODP like some kind of army-run assembly line where work-unit-number-1 is assigned to workstation-number-1, has to do all the work sent to WS1, and must take the blame for anything that goes wrong there.
It's based on PERMISSIONS, not ASSIGNMENTS.
Think of it like a game preserve, where different people have permissions to hunt different kinds of game. Permissions can overlap, and if some particular 12-point buck goes all season without being shotgunned, ... it's OK.
Who's hunting on the back forty today? We don't know, they didn't sign in with the guard. Who'll be hunting there tomorrow? We don't officially know (although Joe may have told me in strictest confidence that he hunts most Thursday afternoons--but I don't have the right to tell anyone else that.)
All we know is where people HAVE been hunting. But most successful hunter/gatherers move around a lot.