Were You Late, or Already Gone?

What the timer missed, and who caught it.

A marketing brochure for the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement gathers seven of the University's published studies under one observation: an automated threshold routinely decides what happened before the person it concerns gets a chance to agree. The campaign opens on a hairdressing salon's booking app, which reclassifies a twelve-minute-late arrival as a no-show before the stylist has looked up from the chair.

@misc{slop_cytpl0,
  author       = {Petra Umbile and Marek Solheim and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {Were You Late, or Already Gone?: What the timer missed, and who caught it.},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cytpl0},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-brochure-a-hairdressing-salon-s-cytpl0/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Brochure},
}