Karen Alma
What I think about. Things that happen to me. Stuff I like. And other things.
Category: Work
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Having worked in customer support for over 5 years, I’m always noticing good or bad experiences with support staff out in the world. Spoiler alert: We had an amazing experience at the Jayco Motorhome Factory yesterday. Here’s the story. Some time ago we noticed a bump under the linoleum in the kitchen area of our…
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Working hard. Trying to enjoy the outdoors before it gets too hot. Also, having to put on bug spray in the morning is stupid. What the heck, Texas!?!
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Last week I gave a talk at WordCamp Buenos Aires on Trabajando a Distancia: Retos y Oportunidades. In English, that’s Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities. I’ve been wanting to speak about remote work for a while since it’s what I do and have done for years. They approved my talk with a few adjustments and I…
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A friend of mine, Amylee Udell, recently interviewed me for a series about work from home moms (WAHMs) on her site. You can read the interview over at Productive Mama. It was an honor to be asked to share my thoughts as Amylee is someone who I admire a great deal. Enjoy the article!
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It just makes my day when a company takes responsibility for errors, even when, actually *especially when*, the error isn’t their responsibility. Mid February, I was with my husband and kids at the Albuquerque Sunport, waiting to get on a flight to Costa Rica, connecting through Atlanta. We had to wake up super early to…
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I went to Vegas for work. Yup. Vegas. That place where people go to gamble and party and all that? I even managed to sort of very vaguely learn how a person might play craps should they be inclined to do such things. Which I am not, but it was fun to watch the gambling skills…
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I am a list maker. But I am also a list avoider, I think this is also sometimes called being a procrastinator. And I am inconsistent about my organizational strategies. But I have a job where it rather helps to be on top of things. So I recently made a resolution to be very very consistent…
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A couple of days ago I changed the primary domain for this site from karenalma.com to karen.blog. I’m pretty excited! You can get yours too at get.blog or at WordPress.com!
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And let me let you in on a secret. The coffee inside that mug? It has a dash of nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom. And a drop or two of honey. Deliciousness in a WordPress mug. Forgive the super long title! This is posted from my iPhone photo library. I’m playing around with ways to post…
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I emptied my work email and have a couple of pending items in my personal email. I am feeling super accomplished!!! And I feel so much better about this coming week now.
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During our free time in Whistler during the Automattic Grand Meetup, we took a hike out to an old train wreck. In 1920ish sometime, a train was hurtling down the track going twice as fast as it should have been, and the cars flew off the track when the train went around the bend. Apparently,…
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Coworking with some pretty great Happiness Engineers. While many of our colleagues are working on projects and taking classes here at the Automattic Grand Meetup, we’ve elected to work on answering forum threads, support tickets, and other Happiness work. We’re working hard. Well, not in this picture, but generally, there is a lot of work…