Tag: remote working
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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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Onboarding with Donut
I wrote most of this back in August time, but it’s been sitting in my drafts folder. Posting now as I’ll be working on bringing Donut to more Happiness Engineers. As I mentioned, I’m on rotation to the JPOP division at work. It’s been a long minute since I went through any learning or on-boarding…
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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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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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Got a lock
After another “three year old has clearly been in my office” situation today, Kevin brought this when he came for dinner.I’m deadly serious. My office is getting locked.
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Locked office
I’m going to need to look into changing the standard door handle on my office door to one which has an actual lock and key. A certain three year old doesn’t understand “stay out and leave dad’s things alone” – found my BB-8 vinyl pop toy in three pieces along with a few other tell…
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