"Ouch. Tough toss to lose." "Not wrong mate. Shit."
Maddison Partners is a marketing company with a roughly even mix of male and female employees. It's a pretty busy office, with everyone too busy to spend a heap of time socially chatting to each other.
However, for some reason, the boys seem to have all the time in the world today to chat. In fact, they have been regularly seen marching into each other's offices to say weird stuff that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the accounts they're working on.
Julie Mackay (25) explains that the boys are acting like weirdos.
"So James just walked into Simon's office and announced 'Ouch. Tough toss to lose.' As far as I'm aware the only account they're working on together is the Walker account, and I can't see what the hell they're talking about, and how it could have anything to do with that account. Anyway, good to see the boys getting along I spose. I always thought those two hated each other."
We explained that they are distracted by the fact that the first cricket test of the summer has just started, which came as a surprise to Julie.
"So they're watching the cricket? Like they're watching tv? At their desk? That's a bit brazen! Does management know?"
We explained that they generally aren't watching the cricket on TV. We took her into Simon's office, and showed her what he was looking at.
"What's this thing? What's Cricinfo? Is that just the score with written descriptions? That is literally the most boring thing I've ever seen. And I've seen some astonishingly boring things. I can't get Simon to read a one page report from me on a client, but he's going to sit here all day reading short stories about deliveries and wickets. Don't tell me they're all doing this!"
They are. We strolled into Mark Jacob's office, and could immediately see that he had the same little ticker of written commentary on his screen.
She asked him why the hell that was an interesting thing to do, but she was interrupted by Mark clenching and pumping his fist, and then running into another colleague's office.
Hazlewood had "snared Rahul" whatever that means. India one down.
Julie just sighed and walked back to her desk. Men are weird.