Lucy Spinks (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} addingvalue) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} finnigans_rpg,@ 2015-02-25 13:55:00 |
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Who: Lucy and Alicia
What: Talking about the Ministry
Where: Offices of the Fawley Foundation
When: Sometime Wednesday 25th
Rating: SFW
After being stuck in St Mungo's for over a week, Lucy had returned to her job to find absolute chaos. The office had had to get a temp in to make sure payments continued to go through in time, but either no one had explained Lucy's system or the replacement had simply chosen not to follow it. Payments were made in time, but half of them went through under the incorrect tax codes and the other half were made with no notes as to what they were for. It took Lucy days of working overtime to get everything sorted - and then more to catch up on the backlog created by focusing on that. It wasn't as if February was exactly a calm month at the best of times. With the end of the financial year in sight there was always extra work to do compiling end-of-year reports and setting systems up for the new year.
Finally, though, Lucy had gotten to the stage where she had to either take a day off or go absolutely stir crazy. Even then, she didn't have time for a real break. As much as she wanted to sit on the couch in her pyjamas watching bad daytime television and eating chocolate, she had too much to sort out in her other life. So she started off the morning with a climb at her usual rock-climbing gym, then showered and changed and headed to Monument Alley. Alicia had volunteered to help weeks ago and Lucy was finally going to take her up on it. It would be helpful to have someone who wasn't too invested in Lucy's personal life give her an objective opinion.
Lucy waited in reception, having asked for Alicia and been assured that a message would be sent for her. The unsettling fact that Lucy didn't even know how that would be achieved without telephone or e-mail was mentally added to her 'con' list.