Category: happiness engineer
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Weird job titles…
One of my co-workers shared this article by Business Insider and mentioned that we feature twice on this list of “17 wild job titles companies are using to attract millennials” Fun fact. Automattic has been using the title Happiness Engineer for at least a decade. Well before the term was in common parlance. I’m a Millenial.…
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Calm kids
Both kids were at home today. Benj needed to stay off nursery to fully recover and H has an inservice day from school. Amazingly I did three hours of live chat without much of an interuption. That needs noted down, so proud of the kids
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1000 Likes / 101 posts
I guess my coworkers like me… (You to can get fancy achievement badges if you post lots, or take orders, or get followers. Or get post Streaks.) This will post will be number 101 on this blog. Not bad considering this site address (dougaitken.wordpress.com) originally was created on Dec 1st 2007 and I hardly used…
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Annual GM badge & swag photo
Third time for the “I can’t believe this is my job” post. We have a ton of inclusion type pin badges this year, I went simple with the basics. Yes, that is a branded hotel room key…and I’m happy the data was pulled early for badges since my JPOP rotation ended at the start of…
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A change of course
Today marks two years since I started at Automattic and on Monday, I’ll be doing something new.