if it goes pete tong and you find the a/c overweight or out of trim then its your job as load controller to decide what or who gets moved or taken off or you spot a mistake
back in the ''old days'' one could erm, adjust the number of bags and/or the taxi fuel with the skippers agreement, suggestion or his say so but of course today that would be let us say rather frowned upon
same as when the skip used to say put another 2 tonnes of fuel on for ''mum''
likewise we never wanted to leave any staff standby pax behind if we could help it