Int. Office – Day
STEVE:
What’s that?
JACK:
It’s an elephant.
STEVE:
Why is everybody ignoring it? It’s standing on my gym kit, and I could really do with going home in the next few minutes or so.
JACK:
Yeah, not sure. Try asking IT.
STEVE:
IT?
JACK:
HR then.
STEVE:
Are you sure HR will be able to do anything? They’ll be too caught up running pay-roll to be bothered.
JACK:
Have you even tried IT?
STEVE:
No. I haven’t tried them yet. I’ll try them now.
Steve picks up the phone handset and dials three numbers on the keypad. He waits a few seconds before someone picks up at the other end.
STEVE:
Hi, who’s that?
Small pause
STEVE:
Hi Jeff, Yeah, It’s Steve in Strategy, wondered if you could help me out.
Short pause, as Steve listens a bit.
STEVE:
There’s an elephant in the room and it’s standing on my gym kit, I don’t know really how to get it to move.
Pause
STEVE:
No, there are no flashing lights on it. I think it’s a real elephant.
Steve waits and listens to the Jeff at the other end, he makes some ‘uh-huh!’ and ‘mmm!’ and ‘okay!’ and similar noises that suggest agreement and general listening.
Steve goes down to his computer and presses the power button in for three or four seconds.
The computer shuts down with a little ‘beep’. The noise makes the elephant move about a foot, off Steve’s gym bag.
STEVE:
Yeah, brilliant! That seems to have worked!
Steve stands up off his desk, grabs the bag and walks out of the office.