That moment when you find yourself in a workshop wondering if the business representatives attending were selected just so that the people they work with can get some peace and quiet.

As the project lies like a whale immobilised on a beach, the attendees, to continue this analogy, are spending time at length scoring points off each other regarding which exact colour to paint the trapped cetacean. This allegedly essential decorative step is to be done before executing the rest of their brilliant plan to dynamite the creature back into the sea alive and well.

As the beast sighs its last breath unnoticed by the arguing throng, the vendor spies its demise, and, figuring the scale of the likely overrun before anyone smells rotting blubber, surreptitiously begins configuring his next Porsche online…