Why Buckets?

I have no idea.

Comic transcript

Panel 1:
Parrot and the beautiful parrot are drinking coffee.
P You look sad. What’s going on?
BP: My boss is mad at me. They wanted me to do a promotion where we fill an Olympic swimming pool only with buckets.
Panel 2:
P: looking at a phone on the table Ah. I see how that might not be what they had meant.
BP: You say that as if that’s somehow obvious ... ?
P: well ...
Panel 3:
It's a picture of the promotion. The beautiful parrot is happily looking at the camera. Behind them is an Olympic swimming pool that contains buckets.