Level 6 Conference Room


A door on the wall beside the cubicles leads to a Conference Room where the Transportation employees will meet to discuss important matters. When a meeting is called EVERYONE will report here when directed to unless other tasks have been assigned. The center of the room is taken up by a large square table with enough chairs around it to accomidate everyone and there are more in a closet if they are needed. The walls are covered with stlyish art and a white board to use in presentations.

Taking notes during meetings is a good idea and would be much appreciated, you may need them for the assigments that will be given.

After returning from his rather dull meeting with Evander Bole on level two, Armen had placed the announcement on the Board and entered the Conference room to await his faithful employees. He was actually excited to get them on board so they can begin this and many other projects.

Katrina entered the level 6 conference room upon seeing the memo posted on the board. As she entered with her coffee in one hand and a folder and memo pad in another, she could only wonder about why they had all been called here. Yes, she had heard about the department of Magical Law Enforcement having all their apparation licenses evoked, news did travel fast in the Ministry, perhaps this was pertaining to the subject? Katrina had no idea and just took a seat at the table.

"Hello Mister Recard," Katrina greeted, setting her things down and taking a sip of her coffee.

Rose walked towards the conference room, wondering what this meeting was going to be about. Maybe something to do with the licenses of all the Magical Enforcement employees being suspended? Yeah, probably. She was going to find out in a few minutes anyway. She opened the door and blinked. She was way too early for the meeting. Oh. Well..that was a good thing, right? She entered the room.

Rose greeted Armen with a "Mr. Recard", smiled at Katrina and pulled out a chair for herself. Hm. This meeting was going to be interesting. Hopefully.

Andie came to the conerence room, half-eaten apple in hand and having no idea what it could be about. She'd heard about MLE having their apparition licenses revoked, and them being the MT department, it would affect them. She figured it was probably to do with that.

Andie entered the room, flashing a grin at the people in there. "Hi Mr Recard." She grabbed a seat, and looked around, wondering what would happen.

Holli walked into the room, passed the Boss Dude and said 'Hello, Mr. Recard!' grinning as she did so. It's nice to be bubbly! Good thing I am! Holli chuckled. She took a seat, and saved one for her twin.

Layla walked into the conference room and looked around the room. Most persons had already arrived and were settled so she figured she came at the right time. She wasn't too early where she would have to wait a long time for the meeting to start and she wasn't late, where she would be eyed by everyone as she walked in.

She smiled at her boos, gave a general 'good day' and took a seat, where she had a good view of everyone in the room.

Charmayne walked into the confrence room, coffee flask in one hand and a memo pad in her other. She had come in as soon as she had seen the notice on the board. She wondered what this meeting might be about.

"Good Day, Mister Recard. Everyone." Maine wasn't late was she?! Maine was never late... Maybe it's just the right time?

Maine walked over to the vacant spot next to andie and grinned across the table at Holli.

After a nice break, Aidon made his way into the slowly filling Conference room. His emerald green robes swished slightly as he walked by his Department Head, Armen Recard.
"Evening, Armen," he said, bowing his head slightly to his friend. He sat down in an empty seat and looked inquiringly toward Armen. The notice he had placed was very vague and the young supervisor was very curious about what occurred in the Department Head meeting.

Armen began to prep some of his notes and move around a parchment or two here and there in his folder. A copy of the Daily Phophet was stuck to the board behind him, with the Headline 'MLE loses Apparation Licenses due to Poor purformance.' This was an important meeting with MANY activities and future work assignments to come. Now he just needed his employees to show up.
And the first of them was Katrina. "Good afternoon! Punctual as always." he grinned brightly and read through some more papers.
Ahhh one of his relatively new hires had shown up, and early too. "Hello there Rose." he said nodding to her respectfully as she joined Katrina at the table.
"Andie, its good to see you." The Department Head smiled. He was glad that many people were showing up early, they needed to get to work as soon as possible on all the things they had to tackle.
A nod towards Layla and Holli. Layla had been relatively quiet upon entering the conferene room, maybe she would help out a lot during the meeting though? Armen hoped so at least.
"Good afternoon Maine." he said with another grin. At least his department's employees were friendly and happy, unlike what most of MLE's are probably like right now. Oh well they chose to go against the Cult.
Ahh Aidon! Glad you could make it." he said greeting his Broom supervisor with a bright smile. He was glad that he had arrived because he was a known excellent note taker.

Ok now that a large number of people were here, Armen could start the meeting. The one person he was missing was Katherine Spades, his Apparation practicals examiner who he needed for this meeting but he supposed he could fill her in later personally if needed. "Ok everyone, I am glad you have all shown up because Magical Transportation has a large plate of assignments to cover in the Ministry at the current time." he said rubbing his hands together. This was good for them, the Ministry and Lord Borr will recognize their hard work.

"Now first off, Lord Borr has made it clear to all the Department heads that he would like the Ministry to focus on Environmental refurbishing around the Wizarding center of Diagon Alley. He would like a team of employees to go out and plant trees in the shopping center and is very excited about this project." he looked around the room and it was a known fact that most employees of the Ministry had at least a vague dislike of the large new Minister but Armen respected him and his Cultist ways and he would not tolerate anything less than respect for their Minister.

Plant trees? Rose stared at Armen. Why didn't they assign such assignments to the Environmental Department? Not that it was a bad thing. It showed that Borr was a little concerned about nature..just like she was. But..until now, she hadn't done anything remotely related to what she was actually supposed to do. Jeez. She cleared her throat and said, "That's..."just really weird, considering the fact that I work in Magical Transportation. "a great idea." Rose finished.

Katrina smiled. "Thank you Mister Recard," she said, watching others file in and smiling at all of them. She waited for the rest of them to sit down, as well as to find out why exactly they were here.

She was quite excited to get back into doing more work... much like last time except not stuck in a weird cave-tunnel thing. She was a tad bit confused though as to why they should be planting trees around Diagon Alley, they weren't the Environmental department... that was Level 4, they were Level 6 and they were in charge of... well, Transportation. However, she had grown slightly used to Borr's ridiculous ideas and trees and plants of all sorts was good for the environment.

"Mister Recard, the idea is great, but you said a team of employees, how will you be splitting us all up for this?" Katrina asked, wondering if she would be digging holes and... planting trees. That and what about their current jobs? Would all of that be placed on hold to plant trees?

Maine grinned. Work. Just what she needed to get her mind off her tiring divorce.

At the mention of Lord Borr, Maine stiffened slightly. (Very slightly, you wouldn't have noticed.) Before she willed herself to loosen up. Although not particularly fond of the new Minister, she respected him.

"Environmental refurbishing, That's..." kinda odd, we're Magical Transportation "A great idea." she finished enthusiastically. What happened to the Environmental Department? Meh, nevermind. Maine was up for whatever they decided to throw at her. Except maybe Devil Snares...

Did he just say shopping centre? "Wait, a team..." Maine murmured thoughtfully. "So we're going to be split up?"

Layla sat back and listened attentively while Armen started the meeting and informed them of what project they would be taking on. She was expecting something exciting and fun, and possibly something that would further prove how much the level two department workers needed the transport department...but Armen dropped the tree planting bomb.

She blinked...then blinked again. They were going to be planting trees?? What a huge anticlimax. But what was she going to do, plus there was a bonus involved.

"We're planting trees?" She shifted in her seat a bit. She looked at Rose who was the first to reply and tried to hide the disappointment that she was sure was starting to cloud her features." Can't wait..."

Was this butt kissing?

'Oh, cool!' Holli grinned. 'We're finally doing something about the environment!' Holli continued, thinking to herself; correction, Lord Borr is finally doing something right!

Obviously missing some of the hesitation and bulging eye sockets, Armen grinned excitedly at the woman who spoke up. "It is isn't it? To bad I didn't come up with it myself! Lord Borr thought of it of course." he said, it was true however, if he had come up with it he would be even closer to Borr, which anyone in their right mind in the Ministry today knew that was the best of all options.

After agreeing with the other ladies at how awesome and wonderful the idea of going out and planting trees would be and how benefitial it was to the world and his Department in the eyes of Borr and the Cult, Katrina and Maine both asked for more information in the goings-on of this assignment.

"Excellent questions ladies." he said nodding to both of them. "That is actually where I am going next. Now we will be splitting into two main groups." he said eyeing the room. "Group one will be the one in charge of the tree planting and it's promotion throughout the Ministry. We are not alone on this project, other departments, including the Environmental workers on level four should all be joining us in this project. So team one will be made up of Andie, Maine, Holli, Layla, Leo, and Allie." he made a few marks on his clipboard and continued. "They will be supervised by Aidon, our Broom Supervisor and Anna or Floo network supervisor."

Armen took two stacks of flyers and placed them on either end of the table. "Now you all will spread out and drop off a flyer, created by Kaishu Shiradou on Level 4, at some shops in Diagon Alley and just breifly explaining the cause to them. Then you will procede in actually planting some of the trees that will be placed when you arrive." He nodded. Pretty simple and it would help better the world.



"Now team two will begin helping me with the situation that is unfolding with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, can anyone tell me what's going on with that, what have you heard?" he said leaning on the table, looking at them all. He wanted to know how much the MLE stooges had corrupted his employees, if they had told them he was a loon, or if they were rightly informed; that it was the best for the Ministry and Armen did his duty in taking them away.

He wasn't late. Really, he wasn't.

Alright, he was late, but it was for a good reason! For one, he didn't know about this meeting until two minutes ago and secondly, he was doing research. Research for a good cause! One that Armen told him to gather information for, so that's what he had. He just didn't know that he was researching candy crane machines in the middle of a meeting.

Late or not, he inched his way into the room, papers in hand, and slowly sat down in one of the seats, trying to be as quiet and inconspicuous as possible. Erm...hehe. Present! What were they talking about?

Of course. Who else would come up with such brilliant ideas? Rose rolled her eyes but kept quiet. She'd heard a few things about Armen and the Cult..well, it was always better to be careful than sorry. She just couldn't afford to lose this job.

So, Rose wasn't in team one..which was a relief. She really wanted to do something interesting..something that didn't involve the colour green. Even if she did care a lot about the environment.

o_O Rose knew that her boss was responsible for the 'situation' in the MLE department..at least, if certain rumors were to be believed. She cleared her throat and said, "Well..I've heard that the licenses of all the MLE employees have been revoked." Thanks to you. Yeah, right. Like she was going to say that aloud. Poor MLE's. She kinda felt bad for them.

Layla leaned back in her seat and folded her arms across her chest. She was most certainly not all that pleased with what was being planned here but she would be keeping quiet on the issue...for now. She continued watching her boss with a blank look on her face, because well, keeping her face neutral would hide how slightly annoyed she was right now. At least she wasn't cooped up inside writing papers.

Layla couldn't hide the frown when she heard that she would be in the group who would be doing the actual tree planting. Was she being punished?

Did he just say the others would be helping him with the MLE'ers? Great, she would be getting dirt under her nails while the other workers got the interesting project. Yeah this tree planting business better be worth the bonus. She would need to have her nails done after this.

Katrina was surprised when she wasn't in the group to plant trees. She wondered why but her question was soon answered after some flyers and some simple explanations. She did feel quite uneasy about the whole MLE apparation license thing. It didn't seem right, after all, they would be unable to do their job as efficiently.

"According to the Daily Prophet, you, Mister Recard, pointed out the poor performance of MLE in a recent meeting. Lord Borr then suspended all of their apparation licenses immediately," Katrina added onto Rose's explanation. There have been floating rumors about the department head advising this to the acting Minister only to annoy the department head of MLE, but that was quite absurd. Why would anyone even bother with such petty games when it could throw the whole Ministry more out of balance than it already was.

Holli listened to the Boss Dude. 'YAY!' Holli grinned. 'Team One RULES!' Holli said, enthusiastically. 'So when do we begin?' Holli asked, getting excited. Planting trees? AWESOME! I'm gonna help the environment!

As Armen began to speak to his employees, Aidon conjured a clipboard, parchment, and quill. He gave his wand a flick, and it began scribbling furiously, matching with Armen's words. As his quill magically wrote down everything Armen was saying, the young man leaned back comfortably in his chair. He couldn't help but cough conspicuously as his Department Head mentioned the rather large creature they were forced to call Minister Borr. Although he had barely met the man, Aidon had had his suspicions and made a mental note to not favor the large, beefy man. However, since Armen appeared to hold him in high regard, he would have to just play along and act like he respected the man.



When he heard his name mentioned by Armen, Aidon gave a curt nod and made sure his quill wrote the names of the coworkers in his group in bigger letters. He thought it odd that the Magical Transportation department was being all environmental and planting trees in Diagon Alley. However, he shrugged to himself as he questioned things in his head. If it was Minister Borr's wish, and if the entire Ministry was going to be working on this project, he supposed it wouldn't be too bad. He made a mental note of who was in his group, and he turned his head to see if Anna was in the room. Slightly crestfallen, he frowned as he did not see the Floo network supervisor. He supposed he could fill her in if he encountered her.

Of course. Who else would come up with such genius ideas. Yay for Lord Borr. Maine didn't say anything, though. She just continued smiling, yeah. Maine'd make a great actress someday.

Maine grinned. Tree planting. Oh, Joy!

Looking down at her nails, Maine frowned. Way too long for tree-planting. Murmuring a wandless spell, she trimmed off her nails and vanished the clippings.

Looking at the flyer nearer to her, she nodded approvingly. It was creative!

"When do we start?" Maine asked, as she scribbled a few notes on her memo pad before giving in and charming her pen to do it on its own.

Anna after just returning from the break room was feeling really fresh and active to begin some work. She just saw the notice held for the meeting and ran into the conference room, hoping she wasn't too late and missed all that was said. For her satisfaction she wasn't that late. She quickly grabbed a seat and sat listening attentively that their department head was on to say.

"Hmm, planting trees and making the environment greenish and fresh, doesn't seem like a tough job to do. But way in Merlin's name did Borr want the employees to go around and plant trees? He could appoint some group of people to do it.." She thought. Anna heard a group of people names being called out as group one. She took a note of the entire name in her parchment.

As she took the name down, her name was called next after Aidon, who was the Broom Supervisor. “Okay, so I’ll be supervising with Aidon. Good to hear that. She hadn’t much talked with the man but she had a sense that he would be a good coordinator. She took a look to see if Aidon was present and saw he already was looking for someone, maybe that’s me he’s looking for. she thought.

Anna heard Armen talking about MLEs, what it was about the MLEs he’s asking for Anna thought. She then heard someone talking about their licenses being taken away. For some time she was still in shock about that. A license being taken was a big thing for her at least. She didn’t want her license being taking at all, that was something very precious for her.

Ok now that group one was assigned and knew what the task would be, he was going to shed some light on the current rift between his and Evander's Departments. He would post more detailed instructions for his Team One workers on the notice board and in an memo after the meeting.

Armen was glad that he didn't have any paint throwers in the room ready to bad mouth his decision to revoke the Law Enforcment Department's Apparation licenses. Well they weren't MLEer to start with, he hired a higher caliber of wizards for his department, people that saw things for what they were before attacking and criticizing. After hearing generaly good answers from everyone, glad for their overall positiveness towards himself and Magical Transportation, Armen began to speak and shed a bit more light on the situation.

"Great answers everyone, and Katrina and Maine are exactly right." he said nodding to the group at large and sitting back in his chair at the head of the table. "Since Lord Borr has taken up the post of Minister of Magic, he and myself have noticed the general lack of performance in the MLE department, mostly involving poor response times on urgent matters of the Minister and other instances when they are needed. As punishment, and since we are in a stable time spanse of a relatively worry-free crime rate, we made the decsion to revoke and suspend all of their licenses until they can appreciate them and learn how important this mode of transport is to magical transportation as a whole, the Minister, and for the greater good of the Wizarding World." He added that greater good thing in just as a pun, because the MLE just refused the Cults ways and that DID sort of play into the whole suspension ordeal.

Now to address the ridiculousness of what was the other department's reaction. "As you may assume there are some hard feelings and outrage accompanied by this choice, but I don't want any of you to worry, I would assume Mr. Bole will be like the upstanding Dept Head he is and lecture them on the importance of professionalism. However Magical Transportation has a reputation to uphold and we should not allow Aurors and people in the law misuse and for lack of better words, screw up, the credibility of Apparation." he said squeezing a fist on the table top. He was serious about teaching MLE a lesson. His lunch with Izzy and Emily made it pretty clear that MLE would be serious about getting back at them, but they just couldn't allow that. "If any of you are harrassed or confronted about this situation I want you to kindly state that it is your duty and your job to do what your Department Head and Minister have assigned and then report that person to me." he eyed them all. He would have a word with them in person or go to Evander directly. He would NOT have his people messed with because of a Cult decision. These were his employees.

"Ok enough seriousness." he said sitting up straighter in his chair and his tone switching back to his usual giddyness. "Now team two will be made up of mostly the Apparation Department; Katrina, Katherine, Amilee, and..." The Department Head scanned his papers and it seemed there had been a mistake, someone's name had been printed in both teams. "Maine. Sorry about that dear, I had you in team one when you should be in team two because of your spot in the Apparation Divison. You will be in team 2 from now on." he smiled. "And I will also be using Cryrl's services," he glanced at the Portkey supervisor who had entered recently. "for running a buffet of snacks for our...guests. Rose, I would like you to help him with this task."

"Now team two we will be working on the re-testing of all the employees of the Magical Law Enforcement Department. This includes scheduling practical exam times, helping set up the lesson myself, Katrina, and Katherine will be hosting, and helping issue new licenese and record keeping." Pausing, Armen allowed them to catch up and digest all of the information he was throwing at them. It really was a lot to deal with at once.

"Now are there any questions before we get ready to split up and start working?" he clapped his hands together and looked around the crowded table.