Whenever I’m on a trip, one of my favorite things to do is sit in a café and write a post card to some of my favorite people back home.
Post cards are such a lost art.
While sometimes they take weeks (or in Spain’s case, 5 months and counting) to arrive, to me they’re like sharing a piece of my trip with people I adore.
What about you? Do you have any favorite traditions you do when on a trip?
This post is part of a series describing what Automatticians do on a daily basis. You can read more posts like this by following the tag #a8cday on WordPress.com and Twitter.
Hi! I’m Tish, and I work as a Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com.
I get asked a lot what it means to work from home, on a remote team where my coworkers live all over the world. So today I’m giving you an inside look into my day and schedule.
My days rarely look the same, because I love the variety. I’ve structured my Mondays to be my “long day” since I tend to get a lot of work done, so I work from 9am – 7pm.
This is what my Monday looks like:
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Awhile back I was reading a book called The Customer Survival Kit. It was FANTASTIC! I highly recommend it. Several months ago I ended up writing an internal p2 post about it and sharing my favorite takeaways with my team at Automattic. But I was recently talking to a friend who also works in support and I wanted to share my favorite quotes from the book, so I decided to post an excerpt of my original p2 post here:
Angry customers. I’m kinda terrified of them.
Whenever I encounter an angry customer, it takes a lot out of me emotionally/mentally. And I wanted to find a way to get a better handle on those interactions.
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My coworker Pam, is super amazing! She’s involved with the hiring of Happiness Engineers for WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. So I loved this post she wrote giving an inside look into her day! It’s definitely an interesting read! Enjoy! -Tish
This post is part of a series describing what Automatticians do on a daily basis. You can read more posts like this by following the tag #a8cday on WordPress.com and Twitter. Back in October 2014, I wrote a post describing a typical day at work. Since then, my job has changed quite a bit, so […]
Part 1: Application Process
Part 2: The Interview Process
Part 3: Paid Trial at Automattic (this post)
This is the opportunity to work at Automattic, doing the job you’re applying for. It’s fantastic because you have the opportunity to see if you’d actually like the job and gives Automattic the opportunity to see how well you do the job.
It’s a paid Trial, so it really is a win-win situation. You get to try out the position, paid (this isn’t a salary but $25 hour), and see if you both think it’s a good fit.
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Really cool news!
Part 1: Application Process
Part 2: The Interview Process (this post)
Part 3: Paid Trial at Automattic
If you’re interested in what I did to apply for the Happiness Engineer position, I suggest giving Part 1 a read 🙂
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I’ve always dreamed of going to Europe, so it’s completely surreal to me that I got to take 2 weeks off and go to Spain and Italy.
This past year, I was super excited to lend a hand to a project at Automattic, that was outside my normal day-to-day job scope.
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When I was first hired as Trial Happiness Engineer, I was concerned about the flexibility of live chat.
I imagined a live chat operator being chained to their desk all day. But since this is Automattic the pioneers of remote working, how was this possible? How was it going to work?
Continue reading “The schedule of a Happiness Engineer working in live chat”
