You know it makes absolutely no sense

There are times when I'm forced to realise that I'm not singing from the same songsheet as some of our managers. This time it's Doreen:

"I'm told that you've set the lending stock at Dutch Bend to 'being stocktaken.' That means we won't know whether or not they're really in at the library."

"We didn't anyway: that's why we're doing a stock take."