Less than a full day after the Sentry Ridge manager promised the guys in Metzgerhund a lighter work schedule, he assigned them to organize and officiate an intra-company basketball tournament. Forty-one games over four days.

This eliminated all the time they planned to spend on their music. Even worse, they needed to find out why the battle of the bands coordinators now claimed Metzgerhund might not have qualified to be in the contest after all.

To add to all this unhappiness, their boss chewed them out for not slanting their officiating to favor one team over the others. And why did the other teams not react to this lopsided treatment?

The accumulating frustration and stress affected the band. Calvin was suddenly unhappy with everyone. Reggie was showing up late to his assigned games. Jason kept falling asleep while working the scoring table.

The guys came up with a way to show their dissatisfaction with how things were going. And, with some unspoken help from a few of the teams, nothing bad was going to trace back to Metzgerhund.

In theory.