Liliana smiled at the others. A competition - how fun!
'I'm Liliana Bones' she said, introducing herself like Theron had said to 'I'm new here, and I work in the Apparations Office' she looked at Theron 'Did you say you had daughters at Hogwarts? My eldest started there last year, she's a Slytherin. My niece is there too - Madeline Force. She's Ravenclaw...'

"Well welcome Liliana, and it's a pleasure to meet you!" Theron gave he a nod and smile. "Yes, I have two girls, my eldest is fifteen and a Ravenclaw. This is her owl year...she's such a little bookworm though, I know she'll do fine. And then my youngest just got sorted into Hufflepuff! Perhaps their paths will cross along the way, I will have to write them to give them a heads up." Theron made a mental note of it. "So, who's next?"

Oh good! Theron was back for the long run and not just then and there. Feeling that she had hit a bad toe Ingrid said to smooth things over "I look forward to getting to know all the new people too. Do you think they'll allow pets at work?" If she was going to be taking care of her aunts tortoise then there were probably days when she had to bring Fred with her.

"A Ravenclaw and a Hufflepuff. I didn't go to Hogwarts but if I had I would have liked to be sorted into Hufflepuff." Hearing about the badger want Ingrid laughed warmly "If you need help. I can probably sew up some badger stuff pillows and even a sweater that you can give her."

As Theron took control of things and moved them over to more serious stuff like the competitionIngrid felt it like her obligation to introduce herself after him. "I'll go third.. I'm Ingrid Johansson! Division head of the Apparition test center. I've worked here at the ministry for little over a year now." Beaming at each and every employee of the floo and apparition division she hoped that more people would get the courage to introduce themselves.

"Oh, that shouldn't be a problem. I'll get right on that." Jayden said. He quickly made a note of that on a sheet of paper at his desk.

And now it was introduction time. "Jayden Monroe. I'm in Apparition as well and I've been here for a year and a bit."

"Ah, Jayden! Excellent, excellent," Theron said as he looked over at the lad.

Theron then addressed the group once more. "What are some of your specialties? Singing? Performing? Perhaps we have a few poets amongst us?" Theron figured the best place to start would be figuring out people's skills and then go from there for more ideas.

"Uhh... nothing of that sort. I'm kind of more outdoorsy." Jayden explained. "You know... Painting... Landscaping... That kind of thing." he wasn't sure if that would do any good. Maybe they could make a mural or something.

"Hmm...that sounds excellent," Theron smiled. "Perhaps we could make it huge! Like those muggle billboard things...somehow to incorporate both divisions...add animations...and maybe a sound of some sort can come from it as well?"

"Yes, that could be fun." Jayden said. Plus he'd gotten all that recent experience in painting with a certain Unspeakable. But what would be good depictions of their two departments? A charmed whirlwind maybe? And a fireplace?

A muggle billboard thing with animations? Ingrid suddenly felt totally lost. What in merlins world were Jayden and Theron discussing? Looking from to the other she asked "Would you two care to explain that again? A muggle billboard, animations...I'm not following." It didn't feel nice to not understand. To make up for that Ingrid suggested "Can't we make a poem or a song with our division in it?" It sounded easier but she wasn't good at doing either of those things. Oh well you weren't good at everything.

Nina entered the office. It was filled with people and a group huddled at a corner discussing something.

"Excuse me, is there a meeting or something?" she didn't want to miss anything especially on her first day of work.

Sorry guys...been busy!
 

Ingrid was about lay in some more comments on the ideas that Theron and Jayden were discussing when Mr Trumball entered the cubicle area. At first he asked if they needed any assistance. Ingrid was about to say that they did when Mr Trumball annonunced that the competition was over.

She would have asked why but she figured that it would be explained at the coming meeting in the conference room. Nodding to Christan Ingrid turned on her heel and headed back to her desk calling "You heard our boss. Get back to work everyone! Come on Jayden, Theron you had some good ideas but sadly the competition has been cancelled. It's nothing to dwell over..Come lets work."

Ingrid was just about head over to her desk and take a stab at her intray when an unfamiliar voice was heard. Spinning around she saw a woman, obviously a new employee. Putting on a bright smile she walked over to greet her saying "Hey, welcome to the department of Magical transportation..I'm Ingrid Johansson Division head of Apparition. And you are?"

"Oh, that's too bad." Jayden said sadly. Looks like it was back to work. He went back over to his desk. He checked over his list of things to do. A lot of paperwork and then checking on the Higgins family.

So like Armen was totally bummed out by the crises that had succeeded in both interupting and ending the competition between the different Divisons on Level 6. He was really looking forward to working with all of the new employees and with his fellow Heads.

Turning around in his spinny chair, the man reached for a pile of folders that were laying in a bin labeled, 'In' and layed them on the desktop with a sigh. There was always so much paper work. But it was part of the job that Armen loved.

After a short break out in town, Laura made her way back to the work area. She wasn't going to hide it; she was a little disappointed that the competition had met an untimely end, but was pleased she got to work a little bit with her fellow Transportation employees indeed. She waved hello to the other division heads as she approached the four desks at the far end of the room. Her new glasses were sliding down her nose a bit. She pushed them in place as she sat down at her desk.

After finishing ONE stack of Portkey request forms (most of which were completely unnecissary) Armen heard the lifts from down the hall open up and grinned brightly when Laura walked in. He was good friends with her, having worked as her boss for awhile and now she was his collegue! He got to work along side her on Floor-wide activities.

"Well good morning Laura! I like the new glasses, when did you get those?" he asked as he reached for another stack of paperwork.

Laura's swept around the room. Gosh. The Ministry remodel seemed like a distant memory now. The new work space was familiar to her eyes. As if it had always been like that.

But then again, not really. She could still clearly recall her days working in the Portkey Office, designated exclusively for Portkey employees. Yes, that was right. She was a Portkey employee at that point, working under Armen. And to think she very nearly decided to go to Muggle university instead of coming to work at the Ministry after Hogwarts.

Laura glanced at Armen, whom she was now colleagues with, and caught his grin. There was a grin that had never failed to make her grin back. "Good morning yourself," she said brightly. She reflexively adjusted her glasses a bit at their mention. He liked them. She was glad. She was slightly self-conscious about them herself. "Thanks. I've only had them today," she replied. "How fares the Portkey division?" she asked, eying the paperwork piled up on Armen's desk.

Now it was work. No breaks, although Lucas did have a lot. Whistle. But at least work was alright and he was okay at it. He walked into the office with a content expression on his face and walked over to his cubicle when he noticed that Pierre had taken a seat and was now scanning the office. Was he waiting for someone eh? Hehehehe. No he wasn't. Hmm, he just turned back to his desk and worked on something which he had no idea what. "Pierre! Good morning," Lucas grinned down at him, well he did because he was still standing although he did need to do some work. But he hadn't spoken to Pierre in a while so work can wait for a bit right?

Aw man. Lucas didn't scare Pierre, well he didn't actually know why he wanted to scared the guy he just kinda did. He was in the mood for fun! He nodded at him and did it with a small smile. "I've been good thanks, yourself?" he again just managed to catch what he had spoke. Well it was while since he had spoken to him and obviously Pierre had strong French accent so it was kinda hard to understand him but he did. Just.

Pierre smiled at Lucas. He could tell that the man was still having trouble deciphering what Pierre was saying. Oh well. He would figure it out eventually. "Same. Been kind of busy with work and stuff." He then remembered what they had talked about last time. "Played football or any other sport lately?"