{"id":3389,"date":"2026-08-19T06:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:44:50","slug":"matt-surprise-dm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=3389","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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2764\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/2764.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f62d.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the Slack notification preview, \u201cMatt, I\u2019m literally crying right now,\u201d I must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}