Well, at least she was actually paying attention now—that was something. Though the bitch was trying to give her attitude and Marietta didn't rightly appreciate it. At least she was working, not lying about turning memos into bubbles and giggling like a child. Really, didn't the Department of Mysteries need people with brains working to get all these secret operations done?
And had she really needed to prattle on for ten minutes about her title? Normally Marietta didn't sass people at the Ministry if she could help it, but there was something she didn't quite care for radiating from this woman and it was really making her skin crawl. "Great, now we've established what job you're supposed to be doing, can we get some work done?"
Marietta sat down without being offered a chair. She did not introduce herself, she kind of expected that the woman should just know who she was. She barely took notice that there was a placard on the woman's desk that read J. Dough as she made herself comfortable. Marietta handed the sealed envelop to Jayne, not offering her the chance to open it and look over the documents inside as she launched into the explanation of the situation, which was what the documents explained, though they also had the information on what the FNA was hoping the DoM could collaborate with them on and do to help solve the problem.
"The Network is having some issues—some kind of glitch that is sending some people one fireplace over from where it should be, but not others. We've checked all the standard issues that would cause this and nothing is out of order, so we think that something else is the matter. The Department has helped us in the past so we were hoping that they would do so again. One or two researchers to collaborate with our own experts and we should have the problem solved in a matter of days if not hours."