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| | Level One The Minister's Office | 
06-08-2021, 01:29 AM
| | |  Office of Senior Undersecretary James
Although the tastes of the Minister and his former Undersecretary run to lush and crowded, the office of the current Senior Undersecretary is a quiet pocket of calm in an otherwise frantic world. The furniture is all modern clean lines and cool colors, with abstract art that compliments the space but is not intended to make the viewer work too hard. Genevieve James doesn't go in much for creature comforts, you can assume, although her chair is far more comfortable than the two squared off across her desk. In spite of being underground, the room is filled with natural light and the pleasant green smell of growing plants and moving water.
There are a few personal effects on the shelf behind the desk, and if you're stuck in silence waiting for Senior Undersecretary James' attention, you may have time to study the framed photos clustered there, or admire the tidy stacks of policy manuals tabbed with color-coded sticky notes. You may even have time to wonder if the succulents are real, and if they are, who takes care of them.
If the door is closed, please knock and wait for an answer. Otherwise, feel free to stop in and chat.
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08-07-2021, 11:20 PM
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Third Year Gryffindor
Ministry RPG Name:
Alexa Christina Cambridge
Law Enforcement
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Kodee Chosen
Minister's Office
Diagon Alley Employee:
Emma J. Trevelyan
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| Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
Knock. Knock. Knock.
He hadn't planned to be near this office for the rest of the day, resolved to sitting at his desk and keeping his head down as he planned to be...but the more he thought about it...the less he wanted to take the chance of Kenzie being right and him not listening to her.
There was a lot of that going around lately.
Consequently, Kodee made a beeline for James's office the moment he got back. He could feel his heart trying to crawl up into his throat and it was almost enough to make him change his mind. Didn't matter he'd already knocked, he could easily move to his desk and pretend it never happened.
But this probably needed to happen so...
He...would just....stand and wait.
__________________ Imma say all the words inside my head____________________________________
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08-08-2021, 01:06 AM
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| | Centaur
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: *Nom nom nom*
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe James
Sixth Year
Ministry RPG Name:
Genevieve James
Minister's Office
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| Made of Awesome | Ern-la the Best-wa | TZ's Apogee
Genevieve James had created several towers of paperwork on her desk - notes on security details, diplomatic kerfluffles, questions from the press and from an endless number of people who wanted something from her. And then there was a much smaller tower of things that were completed. That pile never seemed to get any bigger.
"Enter, please," Vivi glanced up and discovered her long missing PA standing in the doorway. "Ah, please enter and have a seat. I hope you brought a shovel."
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08-08-2021, 01:59 AM
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Alexa Christina Cambridge
Law Enforcement
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Minister's Office
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Emma J. Trevelyan
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| Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
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"Uh...." A shovel?
Kodee entered, swinging the door shut behind him while he worked it out in his head. A metaphor, obviously, had to be, no question but was it...a metaphor for HIM GETTING SACKED??? Him having to dig himself out of the hole she was about to put him in?? Was it the papers? Those were probably for him, gone two weeks like he was he'd thought it was strange she hadn't dumped things on him immediately or asked him on any coffee runs or anything...but maybe she was waiting til after lunch.
Man he hoped it was the last option.
Kodee took a seat as instructed, doing his best not to fidget because that was akin to an admission of guilt...which....he came to do anyway but didn't need to give the game away early...earlier than necessary.
"I can get on those as soon as you need--stay late tonight if it takes that long, I don't really have plans--or well I guess I did but it doesn't really matter because I haven't been at work this whole time. Missed work, you know, 'cause I like my job well enough and there's a zillion things I'd hate doing way more than this and I think it's a good fit--me and my mates grab lunch often, they work here, too. I'm thriving, it's one of the only places I'm thriving in my whole life--can you believe that?? Weird, huh? So anyway, I was hoping to talk to you about my absence." He concluded, thankfully managing to rein in his ramblings before they got TOO far out of hand.
Boss Lady likely didn't have the time to listen to him go on and on. Just look at her desk.
__________________ Imma say all the words inside my head____________________________________
______________________________I'm fired up and tired of the way that things are said.
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08-09-2021, 12:03 AM
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| | Centaur
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: *Nom nom nom*
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Minister's Office
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Vivi's eyebrows went up. Down. Up. One down. Both down. He had a lot to say, didn't he? Breathing. Breathing was an issue for this one. She shoved one of the stacks over to reveal her calendar, meetings carefully slotted throughout her day. Very little time for breathing, unfortunately, but it wasn't totally impossible.
"This is my pile. We can get you your own pile, but this one is mine." She pried the calendar loose and offered it to him. "But you can be in charge of this. Make sure no one gets dropped. Make sure I find time to breathe. And you're going to breathe with me, because you need time to breathe too." She raised her eyebrows again. "Even if you're thriving. Tell me about that. And about your absence."
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08-09-2021, 12:33 AM
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Join Date: May 2012 Location: Over here! (GMT -5)
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Third Year Gryffindor
Ministry RPG Name:
Alexa Christina Cambridge
Law Enforcement
Ministry RPG Name:
Kodee Chosen
Minister's Office
Diagon Alley Employee:
Emma J. Trevelyan
Knockturn Alley x12 x12
| Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
Oh. Huh. He'd get his own pile and just needed to keep her calendar doable. Okay. He could do that. He could definitely do that. It was in his job description, in fact, and something he had learned to properly do for Fletcher....after much trial and error. There was a lot Kodee learned through trial and error that, consequently, James would never have to suffer through.
Which kinda fit in with the whole thriving thing.
"Well..." It was just the explaining that would be difficult. Always frustrating when HE knew what he was saying but no one else seemed to. "I know what I should be doing at 8 am....and I know what I'll be doing til like 4....and I know which files go where and when to take messages and that if I need a minute, Kaiser is just through that door and my other mates are a few floors away so basically I feel comfortable and like there's structure in my life and the last time I didn't have structure, my whole life spiralled into this awful free fall full of bad choices."
Speaking of bad choices.
"Whiiiiich brings me to the absence." And much like he'd just done, Kodee launched into a full on explanation (read: ramble), holding very little back. It was a problem he'd always had once he started talking, oversharing. It showed up to this meeting to foil him again but for all he tried, once he started talking he couldn't stop.
"And THAT'S why you're probably gonna get a thing to sign saying I've been here all day for at least a month."
As a heads up, while he was here, because it was gonna happen and she was gonna wonder.
__________________ Imma say all the words inside my head____________________________________
______________________________I'm fired up and tired of the way that things are said.
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| | Centaur
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: *Nom nom nom*
Posts: 42,648
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe James
Sixth Year
Ministry RPG Name:
Genevieve James
Minister's Office
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| Made of Awesome | Ern-la the Best-wa | TZ's Apogee
Vivi nodded as Chosen explained, and overexplained, and then plainly spilled his guts. Wow. Was there anything about him that she didn't know? Middle name? No, that was on his employment file. Maybe the name of his first pet. His mother's favorite midnight snack. The real juicy secrets.
"I can't sign it until you've actually been here a month, right? But other than that, I think we can get you squared away. Just..." Vivi leaned on her desk, her eyebrows serious. Her elbows knocked one of the stacks sideways and it listed dangerously toward the edge of the desk. "My primary concern is the safety of the Minister. He's careless and trusts people too easily. As long as your primary concern is to make sure my primary concern is being met, we'll get along marvelously. Everything else is just noise."
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