Category: a8c
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New Woo
I’m almost two weeks late (aside from sharing on LinkedIn) with this one but we did a thing at work. Introducing the new Woo: A revitalized brand for a new commerce landscape. Tamara goes over it in the post but this one has been a long time coming. It all happened internally, every team at…
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Seven years
Seven is my favourite number. I wouldn’t say lucky since I can’t tie any luck to it but it is a number I’m fond of. Looking back on my blog posts, as someone who is often fond of anniversaries or milestones, I only found my one and two year anniversary posts of joining Automattic, and…
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Planning to do nothing
Today marks four months until my sabbatical starts and 25 days until I hit the qualifying point for that “perk” – 5 years at Automattic. I got the final date in March and got those dates locked down using our home built scheduling tool (Your team can use this same thing – https://happy.tools – we…
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Distinguished HE Award
Almost every quarter in work, we have nominations for the Distinguished HE Award. This is a virtual award from peer voting for Happiness Engineers who have made an impact over the past quarter. The past quarter, I was a recipient of that, so now I have a cool image to share: I’ve long said I…
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Supporting support
Earlier today I tweeted a request See if you reach out to a support team, they help you solve a problem in their reply OR you figure it out yourself, gonnae reply back to let them know? You'll honestly help other customers. If our reply helped – you've no idea how much of a buzz…
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Giving Kudos and celebrating success
At Automattic, as a tool for recognition, we have Kudos. What are Kudos? From our internal Automattic Field Guide: Use Kudos to give a virtual high-five to any Automattician you choose. Someone help you out in a big way? Send them Kudos! Giving Kudos There are two ways to send kudos: by using a Slack…
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Office Today
Since Automattic is a distributed company, this means employees can work from wherever they have internet access. This spawned the often updated blog Office Today. I’ve posted once before, about two weeks after I started full time at Brew Dog one afternoon: (Source) While a lot of my colleagues post from beaches, boats, office buildings,…
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Phone Home Screen – December 2018
Every so often, someone posts on one of the general Automattic watercooler p2s some “show me your…” type posts. We’ve had mugs, and desks, and phone screens along with other random “I need advice / this is cool” type posts. Yesterday I replied to a “What does your phone’s home screen look like?” post. Here is…
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Screen reduction / remember to charge wireless Apple Magic Mouse
I moved to an iMac back in June since I rarely leave the house to work. It’s great, bigger screen, powerful to last me probably the next two years minimum, no worries about charging the battery… At the Grand Meet-up I got someone’s old wired Apple Keyboard since I wanted the physical numeric keypad version…
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