Notes on a Whistle

A Teaching Case of Warden Custody on One Sixty-Desk Floor

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement follows one fire-warden's whistle, hooked beside a stairwell door on a sixty-desk hot-desking floor, for sixty-one weeks and 590 observation rounds. The whistle was held by whoever booked the desk last, 27 people in all, only three of them registered wardens, and across three drills it was blown by five different people. The case is set out in teaching form, with seminar questions, and closes on the whistle-custody rule the University adopts for every whistle it owns.

@misc{slop_a4l62d,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Thandiwe Solberg and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Notes on a Whistle: A Teaching Case of Warden Custody on One Sixty-Desk Floor},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.a4l62d},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-who-is-the-a4l62d/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}