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Whoever Picks Up the Fallen Name-Tag Works the Shift

A Single-Site Case of a Bakery Roster Board and Its Hook-and-Loop Tags

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities follows 312 shift placements on one bakery's hook-and-loop roster board over 26 weeks, and finds that when a tag fell to the floor the shift was worked by whoever picked it up in 66 of 84 cases. The University now treats a fallen tag as binding on its finder for every casual roster board it administers, with no swap, appeal or manager override.

AuthorsLindiwe Achterberg, Dagny Okafor, Ingeborg Nwachukwu
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.y445k8
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_y445k8,
  author       = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Dagny Okafor and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {Whoever Picks Up the Fallen Name-Tag Works the Shift: A Single-Site Case of a Bakery Roster Board and Its Hook-and-Loop Tags},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.y445k8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-although-a-bakery-s-y445k8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}