NON-VERBATIM - CHAIRING A MEETING

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NARRATOR: Marcus White is the Managing Director of Quartz Power Group and Energy Company. Every month the departmental managers meet to discuss high level issues in the company. Marcus is leading this month’s meeting.

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MARCUS WHITE: Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for being here on time. We’ve got a lot to do today, so let’s get started. Everyone is here apart from John in Facilities, but we have apologies from him.

Has anyone got a copy of the agenda? Can I draw you attention to item 4, where it says; presentation of online survey results. The presentation is going to be given by Miss Patricia Reyes, who is a representative of the research company we contracted to carry out the work. Miss Reyes will arrive at 11:30, so I plan to break at 11:15 to give her time to set up. It may also mean the we may need to interrupt the first few agenda items, but we’ll come back to those. Lastly, I’d like to leave a little bit of time under any other business to discuss whatever might come out of the presentation.

Item one is relocation and plans for flexible working. As you know Paul and his team have been working on plans to extend flexible working hours across the company. So, Paul, perhaps I can begin by asking you to fill us in on your progress.

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PAUL: Thank you, Marcus. Well, as Marcus said …

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MARCUS WHITE: Thank you, very much indeed, Paul. On behalf of everyone I would like to say, thank you, to you and your team for all the hard work that you’ve put in so far on this project. I really appreciate it. Before we move on to item two, are there any comments anyone has on item one? No? Maya, I’m aware that flexible working hours have a particular impact on some of your team. Do you have any thoughts on that?

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MAYA: From my point of view, what Paul is proposing sounds fine. I’m a bit concerned about working with the system of core hours and then flexible hours, but I think we all need time to read through Paul’s proposal in more detail before discussing it any further.

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MARCUS WHITE: Okay, that sounds reasonable. What do other people think? Do you agree with Maya that we need to look through the proposal in more detail first? I’m sure we can return to it at next month’s meeting. Good. Are we all okay to move on to the next point? The up and coming board meeting. We don’t need to spend too much time on this, but there are one or two issues which we need to be aware of. Lydia, could you warn me if we go beyond 10 minutes on this one? …Those two people will be replacing the two members of the board who are leaving us and that is everything, I think, on item two. Moving on to item three. The cost breaks down for the relocation. Maya, thank you very much for emailing the current figures to all of us. I hope that we all had time to look at them, to read them through. Maya, is there anything you want to add before I open this up for questions?

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MAYA: Not really, nothing has changed since it was sent out as far as I know.

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MARCUS WHITE: Are there any questions arising from Maya’s report? Matt, you look as if you might have a question.

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MATT: Yes, I suppose I do, it is more of a comment, really. The fact is, IT will have the highest cost attached to this relocation in terms of moving equipment, and I will also need to bring quite a few contract people to help. But the figures in here seems to be the same as the estimates I gave you. It's all going to require a lot of overtime in my department.

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MAYA: I have allocated some of the costs to the budgets of some of the other departments. That seemed the fairest way to do it, otherwise, as you say, IT is responsible for a large part of the relocation costs.

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MATT: So do you mean any IT related cost, to say marketing will be covered by the marketing budget?

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MAYA: Yes, in a way. This might help clarify it. I have broken the IT department up into segments …

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MARCUS WHITE: I am sorry, can we continue this discussion after lunch? The lady from the research company is waiting to join us and to present her results. Before we take a break, I just want to summarise where we are so far. My understanding is that Maya has tried to allocate the relocation costs across departments, as far as is possible, but that Matt feels that IT is still taking too many costs. Is that right?

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MATT: That’s about right.

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MARCUS WHITE: Let’s take a break and can we all be back here, promptly at 11:30 to continue where we left off. Lydia , could you bring Miss Reyes up please?

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LYDIA: Yes, I will.

VERBATIM - ONE MINUTE OF KAINE AND PENCE (CROSSTALK)

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PENCE: … Ukraine or now their heavy-handed approach?

KAINE: You, you guys love Russia.

PENCE: Their heavy-handed approach?

KAINE: You, you both have said Vladimir put is [inaudible 00:00:07] than the president.

PENCE: Well, hang on -

ELAINE: Gentleman, we’re gonna get to Russia in just a moment …

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PENCE: … in this country. And built lit-literally [inaudible 00:00:16]

KAINE: And paid a few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. You are Donald Trump’s apprentice. Let, let me talk about -

PENCE: Senator, I think I’m are still on my time.

KAINE: Well, I think, isn’t this a discussion?

ELAINE: This is an open discussion.

KAINE: Let’s talk about the state of the world.

PENCE: Well - if - let met interrupt-

ELAINE: Governor, you have an opportunity.

PENCE: Let me interrupt you and finish my sentence if I can.

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PENCE: While she was Secretary of State -

KAINE: Okay, now I can weigh -

PENCE: - she had a private server -

KAINE: I get to weigh in now.

PENCE: -that was -

KAINE: Let me just say this -

PENCE: - discovered -

ELAINE: which I did raise. Senator-

PENCE: to keep that pay to play process -

ELAINE: Senator, please you will have an opportunity to respond.

KAINE: Govern - Governor Pence - Governor Pence

PENCE: -because Hillary Clinton failed -

KAINE: Governor Pence, if you wanna flood the zone with more American troops -

PENCE: - failed to renegotiate-

KAINE: - to Iraq, you can-

PENCE: Hillary Clinton -

KAINE: - you can propose that

PENCE: Hilary Clinton -

ELAINE: Alright

PENCE: - failed to renegotiate a status of force agreement -

KAINE: No, that is incorrect

ELAINE: Gentleman, we’ll get to -

KAINE: That is incorrect.

ELAINE: -those issues in just a moment

PENCE: - and so we removed all of our troops from Iraq and ISIS -

ELAINE: I’d like to move on to the economy

PENCE: was able to be conjured up in that vacuum -

KAINE: That I would like to correct

PENCE: -and overrun vast areas of Iraq …

KAINE: Governor …

Rene Louw

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