Tag: happiness engineer
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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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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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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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A change of course
Today marks two years since I started at Automattic and on Monday, I’ll be doing something new.
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It starts with a commit
tl;dr I have now contributed ~once~ twice to improving the WooCommerce plugin. Much like how I got started in contributing to the Remote in Tech list with a few “simple” commits, I now have started with two small tweaks of the WooCommerce plugin. I realised we didn’t link to our core Importer documentation in the readme,…
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