The odds of evens

You know things are pretty shitty when after the boss offers you and a co-worker a story idea and asks, "Well who wants to take it?" he is met by momentary silence and then a simultaneous, "Oh it doesn't matter to me."

Things only get worse when boss hunches over his notebook and says, "OK then. I'm thinking of a number. Choose odds or evens."

You choose evens. The boss did too. You win the story.

Oh, someone out there, reassure me that business really isn't done this way in the real world.