He- He wanted him to see about fixing the damn elevator?! Were they completely illiterate down in magical maintenance that they couldn't read a fucking letter? Charles supposed it was entirely possible - if not likely - that they were illiterate or at least that some of them were but still, were they so incompetent at their incredibly basic jobs that they couldn't identify a broken elevator and fix it without prompting from the Minister of Magic? Then again the thing seemed to be broken every other week, the lot of them ought to be fired and replaced by actually competent employees. Perhaps that's what Minister Ross was suggesting, maybe he was suggesting that rather than run down there like a street urchin errand boy to remind them what their job was, he wanted Charles to go down there and dismiss some lazy bastards. Now that was more worthy of his time!
If that was the case it wasn't like him to be so vague about it, also the man was such a progressive he probably wouldn't want multiple members of magical maintenance being fired for something so insignificant as failing to do their jobs.
Charles bit back a retort about it being a menial task for someone further down the food chain. "How irritating," and demeaning of you to ask this of me, "I could swear that it's only been a few weeks since it last had to be repaired." And why didn't you ask me then? "I shall make sure to ask them why this keeps occurring."
If that was the case it wasn't like him to be so vague about it, also the man was such a progressive he probably wouldn't want multiple members of magical maintenance being fired for something so insignificant as failing to do their jobs.
Charles bit back a retort about it being a menial task for someone further down the food chain. "How irritating," and demeaning of you to ask this of me, "I could swear that it's only been a few weeks since it last had to be repaired." And why didn't you ask me then? "I shall make sure to ask them why this keeps occurring."
