Esteban was trying to think of what they got from the Americans that Lord what's his name would deeply desire. "Gina, maybe we should have some one go 'undercover' so to say, at get to know the minister a bit, figure out what he desire's most. I'd do it for us, if that's what it came to." Esteban offered his services, that way they would know what the minister was up to at all times.

"Maybe I could even 'transfer' departments, make it look like I'm working in the minister's office." Esteban suggested. Not sure if it really was a good idea or not.

Harland shifted slightly from his spot on the door as he listened to all of Gina's answers. He sighed and shook his head at her response specifically to him. When she asked for ideas, however, a small grin that could quite possibly be seen as evil crossed his face. He swept his hair back and said, "I wouldn't mind letting a few problem-people cross the border without too much hassle, if you would consent, Gina..." He watched her for a response.

Katrina had half a mind to run out of the meeting and go talk to the minister herself. But that would be ridiculous. Katrina sat back down, shaking a bit. What could her and Gavin do as undercover buyers to stop everything the minister wants? Maybe just let the sellers go ahead and do whatever......

"Mr. Recard already is a department head. And so are you. He is godd at what he does and you are the best at what you do. It should stay that way!" Kat was not a happy camper.

Sophie looked at Gina in disbelief. They were firing Gina, how could they do that? But Sophie was not twelve years old she understood that people got fired. However, the fact that Borr was the one to say that she was useless and fire her. Sophie said, "I can make a few floo calls and see what I can do about restricting the ability of people getting licenses to portkey."

Noah fidgeted in his chair as he looked up at his boss, biting his cheek as he found he had been doing recently at work. Thank goodness this wasn't just another "collect stupid ideas to decorate the work space" meeting, but he didn't like the way this was going, either. Gina Latorta replaced? It was just downright outrageous. Hadn't Borr ever tasted her baked goods?! For a round man like that, that must account for something.

Apparently not.

"I'm in," he said quietly, bowing his head. He wasn't sure exactly what being "in" would entail, but he was sure he could help. No one was going to replace Gina. That Borr needed to just...keel over and chill. Armen Recard...he had definitely heard of him...probably had met him at one point, too.

"As for ideas..." Noah stopped and shrugged. He definitely didn't have much to say after the suggestions of others. "I mean, I dunno how effective it would be, but is there anything Borr finds crucial to his way of living? Anything that we could...you know...deem as unsafe?" He doubted it would help, but he couldn't think of anything else to top the other suggestions. "It's not too hard to find problems with things. Or make problems occur with things..." TRUTH: Magical Product Testers could find fault in a muggle picture book.

"Besides that, I don't know what else I can think of besides what we've already heard. I care for the wizarding community, so I would hate to see things taxed too high or things to go bad for them. However, I don't especially like how the ministry has been going lately with...Lord Butterball."

She had put enchantments up, right? Noah cast a wary glance at the door. He could lose his job for that comment.

Georgiana had been late- Lana had been sick again. Again. Her child was just a vomit machine right then.
She had caught the general gist of what was going on though- and didn't like it one bit. She looked over and saw Katrina, who didn't look happy either. This wasn't very good at all.
Gina seemed lovely- she didn't know why they would replace her. It was just silly. "I agree with Katrina" she contributed. She wasn't much for change, and change within the workplace was never usually a good thing.

"Yes! 50% on regular items, 75% on food." She said.

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"Of course. I'm proud to work under you," Tom replied, then allowed his mind to drift to his work. He was a taxman... Did Borr have a limited amount of money? Somehow he didn't think so.

OH. Hehe. "Well, I'm not in charge of immigration but I reckon I could confiscate and/or ban animals, goods and other items that are imported," the Argentinean said, musing as he looked down at the table, then back up at Gina. "Or, we could collect it all and hide it somewhere under the pretense that we're double checking the nature of it all... making sure it's not harmful and all that," he added with a slight grin.

"But I suggest we find out what goes directly to Borr and what doesn't even pass by him at all so that we won't anger the wrong people," Tom added as an afterthought. After all, it was really only Borr and his people who were at fault here. The rest of the British wizarding population shouldn't suffer for it.

"Quarantine on all animals and goods. Three months would work." She told him.

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Esteban was trying to think of what they got from the Americans that Lord what's his name would deeply desire. "Gina, maybe we should have some one go 'undercover' so to say, at get to know the minister a bit, figure out what he desire's most. I'd do it for us, if that's what it came to." Esteban offered his services, that way they would know what the minister was up to at all times.

"Maybe I could even 'transfer' departments, make it look like I'm working in the minister's office." Esteban suggested. Not sure if it really was a good idea or not.

"No, Esteban, I need my people close to me." She said. "I think the Senior Undersecretary may assist us."

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Harland shifted slightly from his spot on the door as he listened to all of Gina's answers. He sighed and shook his head at her response specifically to him. When she asked for ideas, however, a small grin that could quite possibly be seen as evil crossed his face. He swept his hair back and said, "I wouldn't mind letting a few problem-people cross the border without too much hassle, if you would consent, Gina..." He watched her for a response.

"That would put the people here in jeopardy. Good people, and who knows the problem folk may side with him." She said.

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Katrina had half a mind to run out of the meeting and go talk to the minister herself. But that would be ridiculous. Katrina sat back down, shaking a bit. What could her and Gavin do as undercover buyers to stop everything the minister wants? Maybe just let the sellers go ahead and do whatever......

"Mr. Recard already is a department head. And so are you. He is godd at what he does and you are the best at what you do. It should stay that way!" Kat was not a happy camper.

"Thank you, Katrina, but the difference between him and I is that I do not do what Borr wants me to." She said.

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Sophie looked at Gina in disbelief. They were firing Gina, how could they do that? But Sophie was not twelve years old she understood that people got fired. However, the fact that Borr was the one to say that she was useless and fire her. Sophie said, "I can make a few floo calls and see what I can do about restricting the ability of people getting licenses to portkey."

"Transportation may over-ride you. But see what you can do with denying entry." She said.

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Noah fidgeted in his chair as he looked up at his boss, biting his cheek as he found he had been doing recently at work. Thank goodness this wasn't just another "collect stupid ideas to decorate the work space" meeting, but he didn't like the way this was going, either. Gina Latorta replaced? It was just downright outrageous. Hadn't Borr ever tasted her baked goods?! For a round man like that, that must account for something.

Apparently not.

"I'm in," he said quietly, bowing his head. He wasn't sure exactly what being "in" would entail, but he was sure he could help. No one was going to replace Gina. That Borr needed to just...keel over and chill. Armen Recard...he had definitely heard of him...probably had met him at one point, too.

"As for ideas..." Noah stopped and shrugged. He definitely didn't have much to say after the suggestions of others. "I mean, I dunno how effective it would be, but is there anything Borr finds crucial to his way of living? Anything that we could...you know...deem as unsafe?" He doubted it would help, but he couldn't think of anything else to top the other suggestions. "It's not too hard to find problems with things. Or make problems occur with things..." TRUTH: Magical Product Testers could find fault in a muggle picture book.

"Besides that, I don't know what else I can think of besides what we've already heard. I care for the wizarding community, so I would hate to see things taxed too high or things to go bad for them. However, I don't especially like how the ministry has been going lately with...Lord Butterball."

She had put enchantments up, right? Noah cast a wary glance at the door. He could lose his job for that comment.

"Lord Butterball..." she said laughing. "That's a good one."

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Georgiana had been late- Lana had been sick again. Again. Her child was just a vomit machine right then.
She had caught the general gist of what was going on though- and didn't like it one bit. She looked over and saw Katrina, who didn't look happy either. This wasn't very good at all.
Gina seemed lovely- she didn't know why they would replace her. It was just silly. "I agree with Katrina" she contributed. She wasn't much for change, and change within the workplace was never usually a good thing.

"What do you suggest we do?" She asked. "Please I need all of you to braistorm about your respective jobs."

Harland glanced around at the others in the room while still avoiding their gazes before clearing his throat and looking back at Gina. "Ahh, well," he cleared his throat again, "I wasn't... actually suggesting that we let a bunch of loose cannons into the country. More of... those loose cannons that..." Harland cleared his throat again and ran his fingers through his hair, "Those that owe certain, ah, favors to certain people." ...Can you say awkward? AWKWARD.

Having listened to each of his coworkers speak, he pondered what it was that his job could help with. "What about when we do trading and buying we have them delivered to wrong locations, so when the ministry tries to find why an item isn't delivered, they can't prove it wasn't. Since the shipper would have already shown it was delivered."

"Or even buying and trading for cheaper items, or even fake pieces instead of originals?" Did that make sense? He hoped so. "Like for instance for the department of mysteries..." Oops, he wasn't to speak of the items in that department, even though he was no longer an employee there. "Or even other departments that need specific items."

Esteban though for a minuet. "The American Ministry and I are on good terms...I could always pull a few strings and see if they will stop trading items to us. But a 'ban' on certian items we get from them for a while." Esteban was trying to think on what wouldn't ruin the Cooperation department for good, but just enought to get Lord what's his face back.

"Are there any other Departments rebelling Gina. Do we stand alone?" Esteban needed to know how much of fight they were going to be up against. The whole of the ministry, or what, the cultist had infiltrated just about every where.

"What if they do find out that we are sending stuff to the wrong locations? What will happen to us?" Katrina asked mointing to her and Gavin. "Now fake pieces could work. Because then they would think that we were being scammed and not us trying to cause trouble." Kat said leaning back in her chair.

Leaning foward again, he shook his head "That's why we have the paperwork backing up what we say as to where it should go. But we tell the shippers directly where to ship it to."

Nodding at her agreement a smirk appeared on his face, "My thoughts exactly."

Katrina thought for a bit. "That could work. I didn't think of it that way." Obviously she thought to herself.

Katrina imagined Borr's face all red and purple with anger. It made her laugh on the inside. "Sly, Gavin." She said with a smirk.

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Harland glanced around at the others in the room while still avoiding their gazes before clearing his throat and looking back at Gina. "Ahh, well," he cleared his throat again, "I wasn't... actually suggesting that we let a bunch of loose cannons into the country. More of... those loose cannons that..." Harland cleared his throat again and ran his fingers through his hair, "Those that owe certain, ah, favors to certain people." ...Can you say awkward? AWKWARD.

Gina blinked. Favors? People? She shook her head. "If you can assure, innocent people won't get hurt, I'll leave the favor retrieving to you Harland."

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Having listened to each of his coworkers speak, he pondered what it was that his job could help with. "What about when we do trading and buying we have them delivered to wrong locations, so when the ministry tries to find why an item isn't delivered, they can't prove it wasn't. Since the shipper would have already shown it was delivered."

"Or even buying and trading for cheaper items, or even fake pieces instead of originals?" Did that make sense? He hoped so. "Like for instance for the department of mysteries..." Oops, he wasn't to speak of the items in that department, even though he was no longer an employee there. "Or even other departments that need specific items."

"Yes, exactly." She nodded to Gavin.

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Esteban thought for a minute. "The American Ministry and I are on good terms...I could always pull a few strings and see if they will stop trading items to us. But a 'ban' on certain items we get from them for a while." Esteban was trying to think on what wouldn't ruin the Cooperation department for good, but just enough to get Lord what's his face back.

"Are there any other Departments rebelling Gina. Do we stand alone?" Esteban needed to know how much of fight they were going to be up against. The whole of the ministry, or what, the cultist had infiltrated just about every where.

"Please have your contacts do that." She then looked at the door... no one was coming, but still... she was concerned. "As of now, I believe we stand alone. I think the department of magical sports, and even the Senior Undersecretary himself would probably join us. The head of law enforcement, along with myself was deducted nearly our whole salary. Bole may be amiable as well." Her face dropped, saddened by her next words, "I wouldn't count on the department of Transportation."

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"What if they do find out that we are sending stuff to the wrong locations? What will happen to us?" Katrina asked mointing to her and Gavin. "Now fake pieces could work. Because then they would think that we were being scammed and not us trying to cause trouble." Kat said leaning back in her chair.

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Leaning foward again, he shook his head "That's why we have the paperwork backing up what we say as to where it should go. But we tell the shippers directly where to ship it to."

Nodding at her agreement a smirk appeared on his face, "My thoughts exactly."

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Katrina thought for a bit. "That could work. I didn't think of it that way." Obviously she thought to herself.

Katrina imagined Borr's face all red and purple with anger. It made her laugh on the inside. "Sly, Gavin." She said with a smirk.

"Yes, paper backups, and we can always claim that all the wonderful oxygen that Lord Butterball has insisted we get, has gone to our brains and we couldn't perform our jobs correctly." She said.

"I am going to go speak to some department heads and see what they can do. See if they will stand with us. You all know your jobs. Do them. Do them so that Lard Ball doesn't get his items. Over tax things. Be sure you document everything." She said standing. "Dismissed."

Sophie nodded to Gina and started to collect her things to leave. She knew what this meant... these things always started with internal dissatisfaction and firing Gina, who was well known for being quite popular amongst her staff and fellow peers, was going to start a fire that if not extinguished soon could shoot the entire Ministry up into flames.

But no matter, she had work to do.

Harland, though excited at the prospect of cashing in some of his favors, had to remind himself that this was all over Gina getting fired, and that deserved an epic sad face. Seeing Sophie getting up to gather her things, Harland bounced out of his seat and over towards her. "Can I walk you back to your desk?" he asked with a smile and small tilt of his head.

Sophie looked up from her parchment where she was writing down a reminder to herself to owl a few of her friends in the Australian Ministry when she heard a voice she usually attributed with a smirk call out to her. As her eyes lifted she did in fact she Harland there and she responded, "Of course, I have to drop off my brief case anyway before I head down to the Post."

Ouch, that tone wasn't particularly friendly. Probably just the news of Gina getting replaced, or at least Harland hoped that was the reason. He hadn't done anything to tick Sophie off, right? RIGHT??? "Errr, alright, let's walk, then, shall we?" He tried to put his usual smile on, but you could tell he was a bit disconcerted.

Marie standing against the wall raised her hand silently, it was odd that they all just yelling out ideas instead of having an orderly discussion about it. "Madam. Perhaps we could hold an event." she suggested. "If we got permission to use a very small budget and then we all use our own resources it should work." Marie folded her hands infront of her lap after smoothing out her pencil skirt. "If we were able to brighten the room for a specific occasion then perhaps the atmosphere will follow?"

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What's in a Tire?
France Plot

Taking a deep breath Gavin walked into the conference room. He knew Gina had said that he was to lead this but he was more nervous then he'd been even in the problem in the department of Mysteries! He didn't feel right taking Gina's chair in the conference room so instead left it empty and placed his items in on the table infront of the seat next to hers.

Was he supposed to bring snacks??? He had no idea, Gina hadn't mentioned if she was coming to the meeting in that note, and didn't know what he'd bring even if he had thought of it! Hopefully Katrina would get the note soon and join him in and maybe...even bring snacks?

Jack walked into the conference room and noticed the other man in the room. "Hello, My name is Jack Lupin. I'm somewhat new here." He said extending his hand for a handshake.

Nicole read the notice that Gina sent out about the Undercover buyer needing help when they go to France. This intrest Nicole. Even though she loved her job she was looking into being an Undercover buyer.

Heading into the confrence room she found no body to be there yet but Gavin, one of the Undercover Buyers. Smiling she walked in held out her hand and said, "Hello, I don't think we have been before but I'm Nicole Botts."

Elizabeth walked into the conference room to see what the notice was all about. Since it was about her homeland, her interest was high. It sounded like fun from the notice so why not come? "Good morning." She smiled and saw whom must be Gavin, "I don't believe we have met but I'm Elizabeth." She laughed and held our her hand.

Looking up from the folder he'd opened and starting flipping through again he saw people starting to enter the room. "Hello" smiling he shook the man's hand "Welcome to level 5 Jack. I'm Gavin Higareda."

"A pleasure, Nicole. I don't believe we've officially met either." he said shaking her hand as well. "I'm Gavin Higareda."

Turning to the third person to enter he greeted her as well and shook her hand "Gavin Higareda. Pleasure to meet all three of you." he said smiling warmly at all of them. "We'll wait just a little bit longer, Katrina will be here shortly I'm sure as well."