A Coding Taxonomy of Deflection Annotations on the Shared-Office Pot-Plant Watering Roster
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities develops a six-category coding taxonomy of the marginal annotations staff leave beside missed weeks on six shared-office pot-plant watering rosters, tracking each category's composition share and recurrence interval across eighteen months and three roster relaunches. Accountability-deflection and procedural-objection phrasing recur roughly three times more often than care-substitution or apology phrasing, an asymmetry that sharpens with each relaunch even as the laminated sheet carrying the record is discarded and replaced.
| Authors | Anouk Mensah , Marek Solheim , Verity Marris |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.8kn3k2 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 24 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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- Every Red, One Rule
- Seen With a Rake
- Measuring the Clock in the Room
- CORD
- Carried Forward, Unopened
- Weighed In, Signed Up
- Towards a Reason Code for Every Copy
- What's Left In The Till
- QSI
- Snoozed Is Scheduled
- Measuring the Watering-Day Line
- Towards a Compliance Score That Holds
- Measuring Committee Continuity
- RLI
- The Magnet Did Not Predict Who Washed Up
- Sorted, Not Saved
- Insufficient Evidence of Installation
- The Grass That Bought Six Weeks
- CASP
- Uncoiled Is Watered
- From Draft to File
- Agent, Operator, Complaint
- The Courier Absorbs the Estimate
- Not Everyone Signs Off
Cite as
@misc{slop_8kn3k2,
author = {Anouk Mensah and Marek Solheim and Verity Marris},
title = {What the Roster Remembers: A Coding Taxonomy of Deflection Annotations on the Shared-Office Pot-Plant Watering Roster},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.8kn3k2},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-coding-the-deflection-8kn3k2/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}