Ryan C.

The company I work for, Automattic, is a distributed company. That means our employees live and work all over the world. A few times each year, we meet up to spend time working and having fun together. I’ve just returned from a meetup in Barbados, where we worked on the email subscription feature of WordPress.com and Jetpack.

The Portugese came to Barbados en route to Brazil. It was at this time that the island was named Los Barbados (bearded-ones) by the Portugese explorer Pedro a Campos.
— Barbados.org

We spent most of our days working at the hotel, taking breaks to go swimming, and venturing into town in the evening for dinner. On our last full day, we spent a few hours on a small catamaran and then toured the Mount Gay Rum Distillery. Here are some a ton of photos from the trip!

Broken sunglasses

Shipwreck

Kayakamatticians

Ugh, another meeting

The hotel

“Are we there yet?”

Break time!

El capitan

Watching some cricket

“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”

Bajan fish fry

Swimatticians

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hope that was “wins”…

Celebrity onboard

Sunset

(poolparty)

Exploring

Waves, etc.

Oh hai

Catching a wave

La playa

“Roger, Roger, what’s our vector, Victor?”

Sunset

Elegance

Fresh pineapple

wut.

Onboard

Shipwreck

Pra$ath

Until next time…

Oh hai

O hai.

Breakfast

Tortuga

Miguel in his natural habitat

Twinsies

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

Lunch!

Fish fry festival

In deep thought

Fish fry

Relaxamatticians

Sea turtle

To Bridgetown

Oh, Canada….

Another Canadian flag…

Grim reaper

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Diving

Lunch at MIA

Fitting in with the locals

Bridgetown

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Great hat, Kidder!

Last night

When in Rome…

Moment of impact

Horrendous work conditions

Some more waves

Bridgetown

Working

Back to the hotel

ʇnʍ

Break time

+t +d adorbz

Bridgetown

Back at work

I spy…

Diving

Business meeting

Oh hai

Hotel from the sea

Clicky en la agua

Stylin’ at BGI

Hotel restaurant

The locals

Ocean selfie: Failure

I’m incredibly graceful

Ocean selfie: Success

Back to the boat

Hose selfie

Want to see some more? Check out my coworker/friend Steve’s photos here. Want to be a part of this, and help make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month? We’re hiring.