The Mobile Workers Association MWA

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Join us at Flexwork Halifax on Wednesday, September 4th (5-7pm) for The CoCo Launch Party! Working Together is Always Better. The CoCo is fresh out of pilot tes...ting and ready to launch! The Coworking Community is designed to connect mobile workers, entrepreneurs, and freelancers both physically and electronically. The CoCo has been described as a mashup of LinkedIn, Meetup, and Facebook with a localized focus on organic network growth. On Wednesday, September 4th pop into Flexwork between 5 and 7 pm to say hi! While you there, grab a drink and some snacks! Open to all! The CoCo is a free platform. Join the CoCo at www.thecoco.work #themwa #thecoco #launchparty #flexwork #coworkingcommunity

This Scent-Free initiative backfired; the office started to smell like the back-end of a sweaty taco truck. July 9, 2019 "Personal hygiene is an awkward topic,..." explained Sam, HR Manager at Stuff-It Media, "the last thing I want to do is directly confront someone about how they smell. Thank god for the invention of broad office-wide policies!" Sam explained, "it all started last month when I received a complaint regarding a colleague's offensive use of Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Eau De Parfum. I knew I had to take action right away. I googled how to create a scent-free work environment, and I came across a free policy template. By noon I had 'scent' the policy to the entire office (196 employees). I made it clear in the policy that no one is allowed to use any scented deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotions, lip-balm, detergent (clothes and dish), perfume, cologne, eau de toilette, gum, mints, food, beard-oil, or toilet spray. Our organizational policies all include my favourite clause, a strict non-compliance clause, which leads to immediate dismissal." Sammy, marketing manager at Stuff-It, described the experience, "rather than scent-free, that disgusting month is now memorably referred to as Scent-MONAS 'Musty Old Nut and Ass Stew." I would come home at night, ripe from the day stewing in the sweltering office (someone complained about how the A/C dried out their eyes, and now we have an anti-AC policy). My children wouldn't come near me until I had my water-only shower and use unscented talcum powder. I am a large 300-pound man, unscented talcum doesn't cut it, it just doesn't cut it! I still have nightmarish flashbacks every time I catch a whiff of a Taco-Bell express. The smells, oh, the smells... once they get into you.. you breathe it, you taste it, it becomes a part of you and creates a deep festering psychological wound." When asked why people didn't just purchase all new scent-free shampoos, conditioners, deodorants, powders, lotions, detergents, perfume, cologne, eau de toilette, gum, mints, food, beard-oil, and toilet sprays, they said that a misguided policy created on the whim of one complaint required severe retaliation. The office has returned back to a nose-blind assault of smells, some good, some bad, but nothing as wrong as Eau de MONAS. xx E.M Munster