April 1st is my first day of working from home. VCS life. It will be a challenge since I am so used to the leniency and freedom that was on C2. C2 was like the type of work you'd want as long as you're disciplined enough and meeting all your targets. It was sooo flexible (so much different than what I have been used to since well, we are part corporate part VCS---whatever that means). I've worked here for a year and almost 10 months already and since I started Machine Learning, I felt like I was doing and learning more about the company. Doing some graphic designs on the side is an added bonus since it's a breather from the usual customer contacts. What I secretly loved the last few months of working with this team is that the ML job lets you get more bonus than ever. Unfortunately that has to end, hello bronze again. But, I will let that go since being at home is more important at this point.
I don't think I have enough photos to show how and what it looks like working at an Amazon office, nor any photos of my colleagues. But what I would always remember was how kind they were (to me at least) and I didn't really expect that they would treat me as such. From the time I was a new hire and had to take my maternity leave (I was only with the team for 3 months at that time), they already threw a baby shower event for me at one of our meetings with cake and gifts! Including a baby car seat! I was very speechless at that time as I didn't know what to say, literally.
The time I went back, they were so warm and always asking about Camilla. I think they said that no one had ever really been pregnant within the team and it was like Camilla was a C2 baby. When I was back from my leave, I had to pump and my boss understood that I needed a lot of time to use the mother's room for my milking needs. I had to pump at least 20 minutes before I start work at 8am, mid morning at around 10:30am, after lunch time at 1:00pm and at 3:00pm.
Work was always fun because as I said, it was so flexible. If you have credits, you can put in a time off and go home at lunch or at any time of the day. If you're running late, you can put a time off and start at 8:30 or 9:00 AM--you won't really have to be late. You get to work with different teams for process improvements. Training newbies.
That was me going home at lunch time because...I dunno it's Friday. We had team photos, events, team potluck, ordinary days, busy days, listener days, morning donuts for everyone from someone for no reason, as I said free beer during team meetings, after work movie screenings, and field trip to Jeff's balls or The Spheres.
This was the very first job I had since I moved here (I am still with the same company though), first group of people I worked with, trained a couple of them along the way, collaborated and got appreciated for simple work. Pretty nice bunch to be honest. It was certainly a fun and memorable experience, sadly it was time for me to leave after being with C2 for 660 days.
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