They'll get through job offers while the Doom-Tested candidates are still well inside their promised 2-hour break time.
Keltham will, trying not to sound diffident about it because new gendertropes, note that he's been feeling slightly more distant from Carissa over the last week or so. If he already knew an order he could give her to solve this Problem, or could drag her off to his cuddleroom and hurt her to fix the Problem, he would've already done that; this Problem is not being produced by Keltham's hesitation to do something he already knows he wants to do.