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Mistress Vondella · #1 (**permalink**) 06-22-2007, 07:47 PM

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The job of the employees in this department is to manage the quality and quantity of flying broomsticks. This includes whether broomsticks meet adequate safety standards such as Braking Charms.

Meet. Discuss. Fix where needed.

sunbabe · 07-08-2007, 11:51 PM

Lucy walked into her department and noticed that no one was there yet. That's odd.. she thought to herself. She was notorious for her tardiness. She was infamously 5 or 10 minutes late everywhere she went.

Passing the empty desks, she took a seat at her own and looked at the mass of quills, opened memos, and paper work she needed to take care of. She was a good worker- but she was very unorganized. Her co-workers were always hounding her to clean up her desk, but she flatly resfused. "I like the mess." she told them stoutly.

Simple_Spells · 07-11-2007, 11:56 PM

Meredith Bradshaw flew into the nearly-empty office and took in her surroundings with sharp dark eyes. Her hand was already halfway to the notepad in the pocket of her jeans as she greeted the unorganized girl Lucy who worked beneath her. "It's nice to see you here early," Meredith observed, completely misreading the clock on the wall to read an hour before it really was.

Today the ever-present stilettos were a shade of hot pink that, along with a yellow robe cut off to just below the hips, popped out from the dark navy of her muggle jeans. Meredith truly loved muggle fashion, especially stilettos.

She whoosed past Lucy before she had a chance to reply, scattering a few papers off the desk. Meredith, a newly graduated student who was loving her higher-than-expected rank, shot a spell over her shoulder to place them neatly back on the desk.

She sat down at her desk on the right side of the room and smiled. I love my job... Meredith thought wistfully.

sunbabe · 07-14-2007, 03:18 AM

Lucy shook her head at Meredith. It was always hard to tell whether the girl like her or not. She shrugged and replied, "Good morning Meredith. I was down in Mr. Kelly's Office earlier today," she didn't elaborate on how rude he had been, and how embarrassed she was, but continued "And he gave me this,"

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To: Mr. George Kelly
RE: Jinxed Brooms

We are sorry to say, several brooms have been discovered to have previously been hexed and sold, these brooms, obviously, have been returned and replaced. However, we would like to avoid mass hysteria a total recall would create. Handle this quietly if you can, but get these brooms off the streets, discover the curse, and find a way to avoid this again in the future.

Sincerely,

Madame Rutterford, Nimbus corporation

"We need to discuss how we are going to handle the situation." She said calmly.

lavoni · 07-17-2007, 05:06 AM

Micheal entered the office in his emerald green robes. He nodded to the other people in the room giving them a charming smile. "Hello, I'm Micheal and I am working here." He paused. "First day!" He grinned before seeing a desk in one corner with his name on it. He sat down and stared at the wooden desk for a few moments as though arranging it in his mnd before a flick of his wand and appeared everthing he could possibly need. Grabbing a quill and some parchment he scrawled a note before folding it and letting it fly away. "I'll just get to work then" He said and pulled put a catalouge of brooms. "Today I would like to get over to check that the new batched of Firebolts meet safety expectations" he told the office.

sunbabe · 07-18-2007, 04:02 AM

Lucy watched as a man named 'Micheal' came into the office and sat in the desk next to hers. She smiled at him and nodded. She looked back down at the lists of broom sales on her desk, and continued to circle the brooms they needed to find and replace. After awhile of the tedious work she decided she might as well take a break and go introduce herself. She walked over to the desk and put out her hand, "Lucy Wolfe" she said with a smile, "Welcome to the Department of Magical Transport!"

lavoni · 07-19-2007, 06:18 AM

Mike looked up as a nice young lady introduced herself. "Hello Lucy Wolfe, pleasure to meet you. Call me Mike, Mike Cavlish" He told her with a smile and a slight twinkle in his eye. He shook her hand before speaking again. "You seem like you know whats going on around here, would you care to join me on my little adventure to the factory for the firebolt and cleansweep ranges?" He asked hopefully.

Simple_Spells · 07-22-2007, 05:49 AM

Meredith stared at the paper Lucy had placed in her hand, reading and rereading it several times to the background sound of her coworkers chattering.

"Well, first things first," she announced after sufficient time had been alotted for thought. "And we're going to have to hold back sales on the new Nimbus series and rerun the checking process. Lucy, do you think you could handle that, and possibly show our newcomer some of the ropes while you're at it?" Meredith lifted her gaze onto the girl's face. "We also need to find a way to check up on the broomsticks that have already been purchased without recalling them all back. That just creates annoyance with the model, the shops, and the whole system in general. If we must recall them then we need some form of compensation for the trouble that will satisfy but won't explode out of our budget."

Catching the last snippet of conversation from Mr. Cavlish, Meredith clacked a stilettoed foot against the tile flooring. "While I'm all for familiarizing ourselves with the brooms themselves, Michael, it is to be done on employees free time or when they are expressly allowed to do so. Like when we aren't facing the highly costly and annoying prospect of mass recall."

Really, Meredith wasn't a rude person, but for some reason she felt the need to be official sounding and that seemed to go hand-in-hand with lack of niceties. Maybe she just needed more practice, she contemplated to herself. Being most definatley younger than the man and probably younger than the girl, Meredith was determined not to be stepped on. After all, she'd just gotton her diploma half a year ago!

OOC: Does anyone have any idea how many people are in the area of this department anyways? So far I have you guys and me, I'm the head, and that's it... so far.

lavoni · 07-22-2007, 08:22 AM

Mike listened to the letter being read and thought about it in the silence that followed. He listened as the slightly bossy woman spoke. He was trying very much to hide his smile, this lady reminded him of his mother. She seemed very kind but bossy. Taking it that she was in charge Mike made a mental note not to step out of line too much with her around.

He nodded when received a slight telling off. "Sorry, I hadn't heard the problem" he said defending himself but was not at all annoyed or angry. "I have some brief history in hexes and curses though I must admit I was pretty lousy so that might not be of any help. I have my connections, so if you like I could begin on tracking them down, It would be good if we could find out how many exactly have been altered."

At this Mike gave a slight smile at calling his friends connections and began writing a letter. He looked up, "Oh don't worry my friends won't spill the beans. Very secret people themselves wouldn't mind finding out what they get up to." He said more to himself that anyone else and continued with his note.

After a few minutes he spoke again. "I have written it in a slight code so if someone else reads it they won't have a clue about these brooms." Mike really didn't think that the code was necessary but enjoyed it all the same. "Excuse me for a moment won't you while I send this" he stood up and opened the small window. His large tawny owl appeared and seconds later was flying out over London in search of the recipients of the letter.

ooc: Sorry, I don't. I suppose about 3 to 5.

Simple_Spells · 07-22-2007, 02:16 PM

Meredith nodded in approval as Michael (she really didn't like one-syllable names; they weren't as fun to say) began his letter. "Well well well. It seems that someone knows their stuff," she commented to his retreating back.

Then, standing up straight and clacking her stilettos once again to retain attention, Meredith continued with her businesslike tone. "Alright Lucy, refer to all the Quidditch shops or broom suppliers and get them to hold back purchases. Also get a list of some sort of who has purchased the brooms already."

She reached across her desk for a pouch of Floo powder. "Meanwhile, I'm going to contact Madame Rutterford and get more information." Meredith went to the corner of the room, knelt on all fours, sprinkled some powder into the churning flames, and after shouting her destination, stuck her head into the green fire.

lavoni · 07-24-2007, 07:15 AM

Mike watched Meredith disappear. He watched the empty fireplace vaguely for a few seconds before being brought back to reality with a clicking noise at the window. Looking to see what it was he saw his tawny owl pecking at the window a fresh letter in it's jaw. Mike stood up and read the letter while stroking his owl.

After a few moments of him reading he nodded then spoke to Lucy. "My friends have overheard some conversations of peoples new brooms going out of control. Ciuld be related, most likely that it is. Not much info but still." He finished feeding his bird a treat and sitting back down. "You will have to give a reason to why you want all this information as Rutterford wants it all hushed up you will have to think up a reason" He said smiling at her.

He didn't seem to have anything to do, well at least Meredith hadn't set him any jobs so he asked. "Lucy, mind if I come. Meredith hasn't set me any jobs and I suppose we can all do with a hand. I thought my friends would be a little more helpful." He explained.

sunbabe · 07-25-2007, 05:39 AM

Lucy nodded to Meredith and walked over to her desk. Pointing her wand at the filing cabinet she saind "Accio Nimbus 5000 files" A few folders soared over to her desk and she reached up and grabbed them. Sifting through the first one she found the list of stores they had sold to. There was one in Diagon Alley, and one in Hogsmeade, plus a few others scattered around England.

Lucy looked up again at the sound of Mike saying her name, "Oh. Well I would love to have company, but i'm not sure whether I should take care of this in person, or through an Owl. What do you think? It might make less of a fuss through and Owl, but then again they may have questions."

ooc: I just made up a version. Usually the Nimbus series goes by year [ 2000, 2001] but as i don't know what year it is, i just made it up. : D

lavoni · 07-26-2007, 06:27 AM

Mike nodded. "Yeah perhaps that would be better. Than I guess you could choose to ignore thier questions to why you want this information." He said sitting down at his desk.

"I think probably most of them if not all of them would have been sold form Quality Qudditch. The Hogsemead shop isn't that big and dosen't get too many brrom sales, more repairing and stuff. There are a few around but Diagon Alley would be the biggest by far"

He finished waving his wand where a cup of coffee appeared which he began to drink. He was a little disapointed he couldn't help very much. "Is there anything I can do to help you?" He asked "Or do you think there is anything I should do while you and Meredith sort out this fiasco?" He asked her kindly.

sunbabe · 07-27-2007, 04:59 AM

Lucy smiled, "Letters it is, then!" she pulled out a quill and a fresh piece of Parchment, then paused.

"Yes, i think our biggest concern is Quality Quidditch, I'll write there first. If you want you can help write some of the other letters. I'm just going to tell them that we are investigating some statistics on the brooms, and potential improvements that could be made." She grinned, "I'm not telling a lie, i'm just making the situation sound better than it is..." Lucy turned and began on the letter, asking them to hold sales while they made a few checks on the brooms, nothing huge, they just wanted to be sure of the all around saftey. She also asked if they would please include a list of people who purchased the brooms so they could get in contact with them and ask a few questions.

lavoni · 07-29-2007, 03:42 AM

Mike nodded and smiled at Lucy once more. "We must never lie." He said trying to keep a straight face. He watched as Lucy wrote the letter than read it himself nodding occasionally and wrote something very similiar to the shop in Hogsmead explaining all that was neccesary and asking for the information they needed. He then wrote two others to smaller outlets around England. "We should be getting a reply very soon." He said glancing hopefully out the window. "There isn't uchwe can do while we wait. Would you like to come with me and get some lunch?" He asked her.

sunbabe · 07-29-2007, 03:51 AM

Lucy grinned and finished up the letter with the flourish, "Lucy M. Wolfe, Department of Magical Trasportation" Then she sealed the letter and gave it to a Ministry Post Owl to deliver a long with the ones Micheal had written.

Sitting back in her seat she smiled, satisfied that was taken care of as far as could be expected up to this point. Turning to Micheal she nodded and said "You know, I would like that very much."

lavoni · 07-30-2007, 08:58 AM

Micheal watched Lucy finish off her last letter writing neatly on the back before smiling. "If you would like that, I would like that!" He said standing up and offering his hand to Lucy. They walked out of the office and headed towards the Ministry Cafe.

"I feel like a nice sandwich." He said slightly embarrased at how childish it sounded. Deciding it would be good if the two got to know each other he started a conversation. "How did you get to work here in the Transportation department? I used to play Quidditch, almost went to major leagues" he said looking at her happily, "How about you?"

Simple_Spells · 07-30-2007, 01:01 PM

Meredith pulled her head out of the flames in the fireplace and adjusted the back of her jeans. "Well, I hope I never have to deal with her again." She flumped down into her desk chair. "What's been going on while I dealt with that old bat?" She queried of Lucy and Michael while brushing some nonexistant ash off her cutoff yellow robes.

sunbabe · 07-30-2007, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lavoni

Micheal watched Lucy finish off her last letter writing neatly on the back before smiling. "If you would like that, I would like that!" He said standing up and offering his hand to Lucy. They walked out of the office and headed towards the Ministry Cafe.

"I feel like a nice sandwich." He said slightly embarrased at how childish it sounded. Deciding it would be good if the two got to know each other he started a conversation. "How did you get to work here in the Transportation department? I used to play Quidditch, almost went to major leagues" he said looking at her happily, "How about you?"

ooc: I'm just going to.. adjust this a little bit.. : D

Lucy took the hand Micheal offered and said as she stood up, "Sounds like a plan!" They were almost to the door, when Meredith's head popped back out of the fire. "Was it that bad?" She asked simpathetically. "I'm sorry.." Then she looked around and said, "Well, we wrote letters to all the Quidditch Suppliers in England that carry the Nimbus 5000, and then we asked for their Sales Records, I just said that we were investigating statistics on that model, and checking to see if there were any saftey improvements that could to be made. I think it's better to try to make things seem casual, we don't need an uproar. As for right now, we" she indicated herself and Micheal, "Are going to go get some lunch, there isn't much we can do until those letters come back." She hoped she wasn't being impertenant, but she was starving. They had to be allowed to eat every once in awhile..

As they were headed toward the Ministry Cafe, Lucy put a hand on her stomach. It had just grumbled, and it wasn't quiet- she hadn't realized how hunry she was until Micheal mentioned lunch! "A sandwhich sounds amazing right about now. Anything sounds amazing. I'm so hunry!" She thought longingly of what kind of sandwhich sounded the best, but then as Micheal spoke again, she snapped out of her day dream. "Oh, what did i do? After Hogwarts i took a few years to get my feet under me. I worked doing a few random jobs at the Prophet, but i didn't really like it. Then i ended up getting a job here! I like it much better.." They turned a corner, and finally the Cafe was insight, she sighed in relief. "Quidditch, huh? How exciting! I've always loved Quidditch. I'm not very good at it, but i love to watch. Why didn't you go into the Department of Magical Games and Sports?"

lavoni · 08-05-2007, 04:51 AM

Mike listened, "I guess I sorta wanted to steer away from the whole Quidditch scene. I am not the most..." He thought about what word to use before speaking again. "Most welcome anymore. I still love Quidditch but Quidditch dosen't seem to love me anymore, so I took up brooms instead." When Lucy said that she wasn't very good at Quidditch he made a suggestion. "Perhaps I could teach you a few tricks" He smiled the corer of his eyes wrinkling slightly. They reached the cafe finally and Mike pulled out a chair for Lucy. "What would you like?" He asked politely.

ooc: Post next at the ministry cafe.

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