{"id":63024,"date":"2026-08-19T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/?p=63024"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:20:58","slug":"matt-surprise-dm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/?p=63024","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Surprise DM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I saw the Slack notification preview, \u201cMatt, I\u2019m literally crying right now,\u201d I must admit my first reaction was \u201cOh no, what happened\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt, I\u2019m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby &amp; Caregiver Attendance policy that Automattic will fly your baby and whoever is caring for them to be with you at a meetup while you\u2019re breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone talks about closing the gap for women in the workforce after kids. This is the first time I\u2019ve seen a company actually pay for the answer. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2764\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/2764.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f62d.png\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t think you hear this enough, so I want to say it plainly: <strong>thank you, THANK YOU.<\/strong> Forever grateful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/stephanieospina10_i-need-to-give-a-shoutout-to-automattic-share-7495485415852982272-C-Oq\/\">Stephanie Ospina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/stephanieospina10_i-need-to-give-a-shoutout-to-automattic-share-7495485415852982272-C-Oq\/\">also posted about it on LinkedIn<\/a>. This benefit isn\u2019t even on <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/benefits\/\">our public benefits page<\/a>! From our Field Guide post revisions I found it was added in 2018 by <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/ingridmiller\/\">Ingrid Miller<\/a> of our Human Wrangling team, and it\u2019s a great example of the care and effort they put into shaping what we call the <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a> Operating System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the Slack notification preview, \u201cMatt, I\u2019m literally crying right now,\u201d I must admit my first reaction was \u201cOh no, what happened\u2026\u201d Matt, I\u2019m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby &amp; Caregiver Attendance policy that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/?p=63024\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlingquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}