it's not cricket

I was in the toilet one day last week and overheard men talking outside, the snippet of conversation I overheard went like this

"it's really not on. It's just not cricket."

I scribbled on my arm "it's just not cricket", not sure why I did that at the time, I guess it was just something I'd wanted to think about, what does that mean? Firstly, I wonder what had happened, what wasn't on, and then why it wasn't cricket and what was cricket anyway .... all very confusing, so I guess I'd written it down to try and figure out what it all meant.

And this is what I came up with;

It's really not on, someone had done something that wasn't on, then was it off, er, if it was off, why was that problematic? Not on what? On their agenda, what was their agenda? They both seemed to know the agenda but it seems that the person whose behaviour seemingly didn't  match, was not on the protocol list. I know that having sex during working hours in the first aid room is not allowed because 2 people got fired for that.

And what's cricket got to do with it. Cricket is a game played by men in white trousers with a crease down the front and Imran Khan, a quite hot Pakistani turned politician, cricket is a game, it has rules and takes all afternoon, and women make the tea, they make cucumber sandwiches and fruit cake to serve in the pavillion at tea time, 'it's not cricket'... most activities aren't cricket.

The world of suits and cufflinks has obscure regulations, book packing is straight forward, books in boxes, the book needs to the title identified by it's ISBN number put in to the box with the right carton ID all written down on the piece of paper in the box.

The cufflinks do other things, maybe they make the pie charts displayed in the warehouse that present a visual display of information on performance to the warehouse, how many books were dispatched that week, the picking rate of us packers, how may packers did it take to send out how many books ... and then the information is used to guage efficiency of the warehouse,  sometimes this information is passed on to us in the meetings.

Last week we were on a go slow, in response to some of the full time warehouse staff receiving a bonus from the £69  million profit, they each get a bonus of £600 but not the agency staff, we are just pushed to work ever more efficiently, so we went on a go slow last week ...
is that cricket?