Category: happiness engineer
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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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Learn-ups
I’ve said it before, but the more I work at Automattic, the more I feel the Creed applies to me. This week, I’ll be ticking off a few parts of it and I did so twice today by holding learn-ups for some colleagues. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I…
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First user research interview
I sat in on a user research call today. Brandon from Brnkl gave us some fantastic overview of his site and how he has things set up. User research is something I’ve known about for years but never participated in. Really glad I did, it was super nice to hear how our platform empowers someone…
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