Office Coach: Get co-workers to join your complaint or drop it
The woman in the next cubicle is driving me crazy. “Helen” is a heavy smoker, so she coughs all the time. Her cellphone rings constantly with calls from her kids, and she conducts these conversations in a very loud voice. She also eats breakfast and lunch at her desk every day. I have started wearing headphones, but I can’t escape the smelly food that Helen brings to work. Since we don’t have a break room, there’s not much I can do...
Office Coach: Get co-workers to join your complaint or drop it
The woman in the next cubicle is driving me crazy. “Helen” is a heavy smoker, so she coughs all the time. Her cellphone rings constantly with calls from her kids, and she conducts these conversations in a very loud voice. She also eats breakfast and lunch at her desk every day. I have started wearing headphones, but I can’t escape the smelly food that Helen brings to work. Since we don’t have a break room, there’s not much I can do...
Union Files Complaint Against Co-op
Hanover — A Massachusetts-based union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, alleging management at the Co-op impeded workers’ efforts to unionize. The complaint says that “on about May 6, 2015,” management at the Hanover Co-op Food Store on South Park Street intimidated workers and prevented them from discussing organization inside the store. In doing so, the...
