How it works

Sleeping Beauty is an internal leaderboard for one small habit: turning up to the daily call on time. It replaces the spreadsheet the team kept by hand.

Being at the top is not an achievement. The person with the most points is the one who has kept everyone else waiting most, and the board is designed to say so — they get the crown, the bed, and a dashboard that visibly yawns at them.

The rules

Five minutes of grace. Joining five or more minutes after the call starts earns points.

• Monday and Friday cost double. They are the days people most reliably struggle with, so they are priced accordingly.
• Warn the channel three hours ahead and it costs nothing. A warning is only worth something while people can still act on it.
• Warn it later than that and you pay half. Still better than silence.
• Five clean days burns a point. Nobody is stuck at the top forever; the way down is to turn up.

The rules are versioned and dated. When the team changes them, past scores keep the rules they were earned under.

What gets recorded

A point is recorded by a scorekeeper during the call, by the /late Slack command, or by matching the meeting platform’s join times. Every point keeps its evidence: who recorded it, when you joined, and whether you had warned the channel.

Nothing is ever quietly deleted. A point that turns out to be wrong is marked void with a reason and stays on the record. If you think one is unfair, you can contest it, and the ruling is public.

The game

Turning up on time earns clout, a separate currency you can spend on predicting who will be late, challenging a colleague to a duel, or buying a Snooze to void one of your own points. None of it involves money, and none of it affects anybody’s standing at work.