Inter-Divison Work Area
 

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Employees of the Magical Transportation Department, this is where you work! The majority of the space when you enter the Department from the lifts is given to these blocks of low-walled cubicles. Please find one close to the rest of your Division workers but other than that feel free to converse, send memos, or pass paper wads with your neighbors. The area within the dividers and walls of your workspace are your own so be creative. Go ahead and hang up posters, pictures, newpaper clipping and bring in items to decorate with. All things are welcome except dangerous items or poisonous/man-eating plants!

Once you pick your desk it will be assigned to you until changed by your Department Head, and a name plaque will be placed on your desk upon your settling in. ;)

Now....GET TO WORK!

Opening the door to the breakroom and 'releasing' the cattle employees, Armen then walked over to stand against a far wall and read a copy of the Daily Prophet while the Transportation employees were able to set off, find their desks and begin to unpack.

He would post their first assignments on the Announcement Board very soon!

OCC: Ok everyone, we are going to get this show on the road now. Since all of us are sort of new here, we will take this time to rp and get to know each other as we unpack out things and settle in. I will be posting first assignement soon so be sure to keep on this stuff! ;)

Have fun!

Layla it seemed was one of the first person to come in for the first official day of work. She had a box floating in front of her as she pushed the door open and stepped unto their level. The first thing she did was to find a seat close by the window, even though the weather was artifical. She still liked a bit of scenery every once in a while.

After finding the perfect cubicle, she began unpacking her things and getting her area more personalised and organised. Hopefully she wouldn't be using her desk too much.

Katrina walked into the cubicles looking around for the perfect one. She smiled and sighed. Katrina supposed she'd want one near the examination rooms, seeing as she was going to be administrating exams. Katrina's insides tingled at the thought of possibly starting her job. It was thrilling. Katrina's box of things floated in and rested on one of the desks. The first thing she put up was a little picture frame of her family. After all, family first before anything else. Smiling, she unpacked with a tune stuck in her mind.

Anna walked in the work area. It was a new feeling although she worked for the ministry for two years now, but still there was a kind of excitement. Everything looked so new and fresh. She walked in the room and looked for some good desk; after all she had to work there now, so it had to be something good.

She took the desk and sat on the chair and unpacked her bags. Looking around she could see the level six employees walking in the room and setting their thing. She was kind of nervous for some reason, she didn't know herself. She quickly removed all her things and settled them on her desk, as she was busy setting her desk she was also thinking about her first assignment the Armen had in the store for them. Now it was time to wait and see.

A memo airplane zooms exits the lifts and zooms in through the open door leading towards the Level Six work areas. After passing the front Welcome desk and flies over a few cubicles and employees, the magenta envelope flutters and comes to a hult on the table by the Transportation Department Head ready for HIM to read:

OCC: Please note that this letter is addressed to your boss so please do not respond knowing its contents until told by said Dept. Head. ;)

Everyone! No quotes since everyone was just moving in. :P
 

Armen looked up from his position of leisure at the end of the walkway created by the two rows of Cubicles. It seemed his employees were finishing up in the Breakroom and had even brought some of the food with them to discover their new work areas, that was fine by him.

He nodded with a smile at Cyryl, Katherin, and Anna as the three of his four supervisors found desks. Good at least they were close by and he wouldn't have to search too hard for them.

Armen grinned and waved smally to some of the others as they settled down in their working cubicles. After everyone seemed to be seated, he stood up from his seat he had taken on the small table and was able to be seen over the small walls by everyone. "Ok everyone, glad to see you have your workspace! Now a few of you will not be using these very often, like the Apparation Testers and the field work people but these are places that you can claim as your own when work doesn't call you out." he said kindly and with that he flicked his wand and shiney bronze name plaques appeared on the top of each cubicle so it was easy to tell who its occupant was before entering.

Before Armen could continue speakin a memo shot through the office and came to a rest on the table behind him. 'Hmmmm...'

"Well what do we have here? Pardon me for one second." he said holding up a finger and then going to read the parchment. It was from Borr. They had to do what? Oh...ok then he needed to go in a different route then. "Ok everyone that was a memo from the desk of the Minister himself." he read them the letter out loud so they would know what was going on.

"So I had some other work for you to start on today but we will first be working on this." he said holding up the paper. They needed to please Borr and show him that Transportation employees were hard-working. They had all just gotten to their desks from the Breakroom and he wasn't about to make them move again, so the Conference room would be used next time. "So I have spoken to the Department Head downstairs in Internation Cooperation about some larger scale plans that we will be telling the Minister about but we need to decide, here together, what sort of things we want to do on our floor to freshen up the place and get some air moving. What ideas do you have?" he said openning the floor for discussion.

Katrina was excited about testing people, yes, she most definitely was. But hearing that she wouldn't be at her desk that often disappointed her just a smidgen seeing as she she had planned on decorating it. Ah well, she supposed she still could. It didn't mean she was never going to using her cubicle, right? With that thought in mind she started sketching out a plan on a piece of paper on her desk.

She saw a memo fly through the office and land near the department head and listened to the boss man as he spoke. She bit her lower lip. It would help if they actually had real windows she supposed. "Get a muggle air conditioner or fan?" Katrina offered. That seemed to work fine back at her flat when her younger sister wasn't speaking through the fan to sound like an alien.

Charmayne looked up from decorating her desk. She had just finished charming the plastic letters that spelled 'Maine' to stick and her desk to rearrange itself everyday.

"We could try artificial flowers and an aquarium, maybe?" she asked, her French accent light and musical. "Or colorful lights hanging from the ceiling."

Just her two knuts. Maine nodded and went back to decorating, charming her stationary to write by themselves if needed. Maine found an old pen that didn't have any ink left and so transfigured it into an artificial bonsai-looking tree and decorated it with the ribbon that was currently in her hair. She didn't feel like tying it anyway.

Coffee still in hand Jen bounded into the office area and looked around with a smile on her face, "Oh where will I ever find a place to work?" She giggled looking around as people simultaneously picked a desk space and began to work on it, making it feel like theirs. Jen moved over near where Katrina was and set her coffee down on what she now claimed as her desk. Pulling her wand out from the holster Jen cocked her head to the side thought for a moment.

Giving her wand a couple of waves, a two photos appeared and put themselves in place. One was a photo of herself surrounded by a bunch of people her age in front of the ocean, taken out in California. The other, surrounded again, but this time by children was taken in Africa. Both were photos that held a lot of memories to Jen.

Something gold caught the eye of Jen, she turned to the side quickly and watched as the gold blur placed itself on top of the cubicle with her name on it. She smiled, it was really starting to come together. Nodding her head, Jen turned and walked near where the others were to hear Armen speak. She thought hard, "What about some nice flower arrangements with lots of color? They'd look nice, smell nice and are quite lovely in general." Jen smiled, she raised her arm up as if she was going to take a drink of coffee, and then realized her coffee was missing. "Or, we could change the wall color." Jen said with a shrug, it'd be something different.

Armen had begun to think of a few things himself after he had dropped the contents of Borr's memo on his employees. He knew they were decorating their new work spaces so it could have been a minute before anyone had caught what he was saying and had a second to reply. In the mean time he flicked his wand and a dry-erase board appeared.

Then as if on que, Katrina spoke up and gave an idea. "Thank you Katrina, for both going first and giving me a way to intoduce the plan I came up with to propose to Borr- I mean the Minister." he nodded nervosuly, he needed to make sure not to make that mistake in front of the giant man. "Like you said Katrina, fans would work but I was thinking that perhaps we can do a breeze-like charm to continue to circulate the air on our level." he paused to see what she thought of this. "And as a Department Head I have to write up what we are doing and in this proposal I am going to suggest we do that charm in particular over the entire Ministry!" he said excitedly, giving the woman and excited nod and writing on the board.

The person to speak up was one of the new hires, and she mentioned...an AQUARIUM?! "That sounds perfect Charmayne! We could do either a glass over ground tank or we could even do a sort of coi pond type tank in the corner of the welcome lobby here on Level Six. I will leave that decision up to you Charmayne and the rest of your peers but great idea! Good work!" Armen smiled as he added this one to the chart, he loved fish!

Then Jenn spoke, it seemed like the women were chatty today, for no men had spoken yet. It was giving ideas to brighten up and make the workplace more airy, so it was design-type work. He didn't blame the men. "Flowers would certainly make it more brighter and have an airy feel to the place. Thanks Jenn." he nodded adding this note to the board as well.

Then remembering the crazy episode in the Atrium he glanced back at her. "And congradulations on the engagement." He knew it had lacked a perfect timing, what with Borr screaming and sitting on people in the crowded Atrium but it was love just the same.

"Ok are there anymore suggestions we would like to add? Remember we can be as creative as we want, we need to try and show off our level and make Borr, and the other departments," he grinned. "That Transportation is a front runner in Ministry policy!" He really just wanted to show up Evander and those MLE employees.

Ahh there was the male who would speak up. "Interesting Jayden, but definately doable! Good job!" he nodded to the man. That would certainly give it a nice feel for Transportation, and why not. He had things like that mounted in his office. Armen added it to the list.

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Ok so now that they had the main suggestions, they could start working on them if they wanted to. "Good ideas everyone! Now if you think of something else feel free to come up to the board and add it or if you want to keep them private don't hesitate to bring them to me and I will add them myself. So let the work party begin!" he clapped his hands.

Sections sounded as if they would work best. "Everyone who wants to help with the pond go to the Waiting Area. Whoever wants to put together flower arrangements can head on down to the City Park just across the street and then return here to put them together and into place." he paused and consulted the board again. "The fans and charms we will put into place after I send the memo to Lord--Minister Borr for him to approve and that leaves, Magical Transportation objects. Anyone working on this can work here and begin to hang things as soon as you decide what you will use, there are plenty of old Portkeys, brooms, floo powder bags and Apparation Hoops around the level if you want to go and find some to use!" Armen was absolutely beaming, Borr was certainly on to something deciding that they should all do this!

Katrina listened, jotting the ideas down as well on her new official pad of personalized paper. Maybe she had been a tad bit too excited about going back to work. She placed the paper on her desk and held it down with a unicorn paperweight her younger sister had insisted on getting. She looked at her box then at her cubicle, then at the dry erase board. Katrina could always decorate later...

But now the choice was whether to go work on the Koi pond or on the flower arrangements... Katrina bit her lip trying to decide before standing from her desk. Or she could work on the Magical Transportation stuff... Koi pond definitely sounded like a lot more fun. The twenty year-old walked away from her cubicle and her things, making her way to the Waiting Area with a respectful nod of her head to the Department Head as she walked by.

Aidon, who was the last of the employees to get inside the work room, had minimal choice in his cubicle seat. He situated himself at a cubicle in the far left hand side of the room, placing his slightly bulging bag on his desk and reaching into his robes for his wand. He gave the bag a small tap with is wand. It burst open: papers, posters, pictures, quills, bottles of ink- they all flew neatly onto his desk and walls. He stood back, admiring his handy work, just as Armen began telling them of the notice the Minister had sent them. Reaching forward, he grabbed his black leather bag and shoved it under the desk. Despite knowing he wasn't going to be using his cubicle much, he still liked he decorating he did.
Aidon stood back, taciturn as the others began brainstorming ideas. It really was an odd request, coming from the Minister of Magic. He cleared his throat as his fellow employees gave their ideas to Armen.
"This might coincide with Ms. Hill's idea," he began. "But we should also bring in some nicely sized ficus. I believe that Muggles say plants naturally expel oxygen into the air. That sounds absurd, of course, but we could easily place a breathing charm on them if that does not work." he said matter-of-factly. Having grown up in an entirely wizarding family, he wasn't sure if the silly theories that Muggles have were legitimate. He shrugged, hoping his idea could help. But then another idea came to him.
"This could apply for both the plants, flowers, and the aquarium," he said. "What if we place Atmospheric Charms? I know they can get a bit nasty, but if we keep them in check and all, we can get them to water the plants, and even give fresh water to the aquarium!" He thought it was a rather good idea. But it was entirely up to his colleagues and, of course, Armen. "Rain does replenish, you know!" he added, matter-of-factly.
He brushed off a bit of dirt from the shoulder of his midnight-blue robes and looked hopefully at Armen.

Ramona ran jogged into the office, and nabbed one of the last few desks. She chucked her bag down by her feet and summoned her carboard box over to her desk. This was strange. A new enviroment. Before, she'd been on the fourth floor, and now, she was higher up and in a wholey different situation. Even the office was nicer on this floor than on floor three, which had been littered by sheets and pages and photos of wanted people.

Carefully, she took her mug out of the cardboard box, and all her photos in their frames, and unpacked the rest of her clobber, before finally, everything was unpacked and she relaxed back in her seat, listening to the rest of the suggestions

Jayden rubbed his hands together and looked around the room. It was true, there was plenty of old stuff just laying around. He headed toward the apparation test room and grabbed the spare hoops. Using a simple sticking charm he started arranging the hoops along the wall. He took a step back to see how it looked.

It looked like the Olympic symbol.

He chuckled and took the hoopes down. Maybe just throwing things against the wall wasn't the best idea.

OK everyone, we need to kind of move this plot along, I have others to come! ;)
 

Armen was pleased that another member of his Administrative staff spoke up with some ideas as well. "Great points Aidon." Armen reviewed each of them in his head before speaking of them. "Ok I agree whole-heartidly about the plants and Ficas, we need some more green around this office for sure." he nodded thoughtfully. "Now on the Atmospheric charms, Lord--ah Minister Borr has asked each Department Head to come up with an idea to propose directly to him and I have written up a similar chamr that would allow air to be moving through the Ministry by just placing charms thoughout critical points of the complex. It will however need to be approved before we put that magic into place." The Department Head added gentley.

Notcing a straggler entering the work area, Armen just watched and nodded kindly as she picked a desk and settled in. Good he had someone else to help out in here.
Beginning to walk towards Jayden, who seemed to be the first employee to begin work on decorating the Work areas so far, Armen watched with his head tilted to the side as things were placed on the wall, moved, and removed. "Well what if you try this?" Armen pointed his wand at the wall and a broom floated and attached itself along the top of the wall. A few Apparation hoops arranged themselves tastefully underneath.

"Great try Jayden, but really the items can be placed however you want, as long as it looks nice." he said smiling.

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"Ok everyone else please come along and begin to come along and help out Jayden and myself to decorate our lovely work areas. If someone would like to fetch the ficas they may and others can help us hang Apparation hoops, old Floo powder pots, Portkeys, and brooms!" Armen turned back to the wall with his wand and began levitating other items.