This post will mostly serve as a scrapbook. I've come a long way since starting as the first Receptionist in the San Francisco office, living incredible experiences and meeting some truly wonderful people, and I want to take a moment to remember and reflect on my ride at Box.
Workplace Services
My first team at Box!
Giants game at AT&T Park week one,
with Angelica, who referred me to the company
April 2013
The slide in the lobby of our previous HQ at 4440 El Camino
My desk placard
The original petite brunette receptionists!
At my first Box holiday party, at the De Young.
WPS offsite at Bar Bocce in Sausalito
Summer 2014
Meeting Channing Tatum at a Snack Fair in Anaheim, of all places.
Would it be too much to say it was the highlight of my six years at Box?
Not if it's true.
With Addi, my meeting Channing Tatum buddy
Our first snack fair at HQ, with my WPS OGs
Box IPO Day: 1.23.15
Maryana and me with the celebrity of the hour: CEO Aaron Levie
IPO Day photobooth with M
Years later, crashing a WPS happy hour
as an honorary team member
At the 2018 Box Holiday Party
Lauren's going away celebration
Box.org
I was the first box.org committee chair leader in the San Francisco office, back when box.org didn't exist yet and we called the group ACT10x (Altruism, Community, Technology). And then I kept on doing it for five years, coordinating lunch & learns with local nonprofits, planning volunteer activities for the office, leading committee meetings, and organizing fundraisers and holiday gift donations. It was a great way to meet like-minded people at Box, and to make a significant impact in the community.
Project Homeless Connect SF volunteering offsite
Donating gift drive items to Episcopal Community Services
Box.org committee holiday volunteer event 2017, benefiting ECS
One of our biggest end of quarter fundraisers!
I got to ring the sales gong for this one.
Tutormate in Oakland, meeting the students we
had remotely tutored reading over the year
The infinitely adorable and now infamous LUCERO!
(If you haven't heard this story before, please ask next time you see me)
BUILD Gala, with Jason and Cathleen
Katie, my box.org co-chair, and me manning the box.org booth
at the San Francisco Employee Resource Group fair,
writing letters to veterans and service members
Our first-ever global Impact Day
December 2018
SF box.org wouldn't happen without these ladies!
Cathleen, helping me host the Nepali Bazaar at HQ
supporting Local Women's Handicrafts
Box Quarterly All Hands, being recognized with a
Boxer for Good award for my time chairing the box.org committee
February 2019
With Christina, my long-standing partner in Good
San Francisco Office
Mayor Ed Lee, visiting our newly-opened office
1st Halloween at Box, dressed as the Tin Lady
Me and my double
People in SF could not keep us straight
on a normal day, so this was hilarious!
Halloween always landed on End of Quarter,
so here we are with the box.org bar cart, raising money for charity
I coordinated the first several Box SF kickball tournaments.
Here we are as Team Riley Curry (those are pacifiers).
Summer 2015
And here I am in 2017 on my winning team,
Pitch Don't Kill My Vibe, dressed as tourists
One of many happy hours, with Bob and Maryana
Last holiday party at City Hall
(and my favorite dress EVER)
2015
Gotham-themed holiday party on top of the Metreon
2016
We love CPR training!
My Ride or Die SF Box Emergency Evacuation Team
Some SF Wolfpack faves
Compliance
In 2015, I transitioned from WPS to Compliance. It has allowed me to build a global program, to learn about how the company as a whole functions, and to work with some whip-smart folks. Somehow it's already been three and a half years!
At the Redwood City HQ construction site,
with my outgoing and incoming managers,
the summer I transitioned from WPS to Compliance
My Business Continuity Team:
Vaishali, me, and Renuka, at a Chicago conference in 2018
Compliance ladies out on the town
At a coworker, Shailey's, wedding
Compliance offsite escape room
BEET + Emergency Responders at an awareness fair
My absolutely favorite photo of Addi, ever,
being a kick-ass and literally take names Emergency Coordinator
A handful of my global Emergency Coordinators, all at HQ
Crispen, my Compliance VP
The next few are from our Compliance holiday cruise
December 2018
Crispen's send-off
Travels
I've been fortunate enough to visit all the principal Box offices at least once over the years. I have absolutely loved this part of my job, getting to build meaningful relationships with the global Boxers I interact with daily. I also got to attend two Box Women's Network offsites, the first in Austin, and the second in Seattle!
With Lauren at the BWN Austin offsite
A few favorite BWN ladies!
The Seattle BWN gang, after braving intense weather
and an Airbnb power outage
Box London Wolfpack, circa 2016
Practicing fire drills in London
Summer 2018
A few key members of HQ and Austin Wolfpack at
Fixe in Austin, the place with the best biscuits, period.
BCM team in Tokyo
With Giulia, the Italian member of WPS, in London
...and with Emma in London!
Besties
In interviews, candidates always ask the same question: what do you love most about working at Box? And of course we all give the same tried and true answer: the people! Because it's, well, true.
My WPS OGs again, but spiffy this time
At a BoxWorks after party (don't ask me which one),
with Angelica, Reed, and Maryana
Hanging with the IT and SF Wolfpack crew at Dolores
When Ana started at Box, she had 0 babies.
Now look at those cuties!
These two - among my best Box treasures.
Here we are on a trip to Boston, April 2016.
And after my favorite holiday party,
soaking our feet and singing along to Justin Bieber
Three "generations" of SF Workplace Services
Cathleen and me, on one of our many walks
(which often would end in Specialty's cookies).
This one snapped in the briefly open period of the Salesforce park!
My SF ladies, circa last week.
They gave me a unicorn-themed gift
and wrote me a sob-fest of notes.
Sanam, one of Box's biggest weapons, a great mentor, and
the wonderful woman who introduced me to WILpower!
Sandra, my forever mentor and dear friend
Crispen, Sandra, and Pom,
laughing in the face of tears because I'm leaving ;)
So many touching messages in the very thoughtful
Box Yearbook Renuka put together for me
And so, in what feels like the very definition of bittersweet, I prepare to walk out of this office channeling Ariana. I look forward to having a great pool of talented Boxers to turn to when I need advice, to transforming coworkers into friends, and to building upon everything I've learned here.
I hope to manifest all the well wishes and complimentary remarks from my Box family and to make y'all proud in my new endeavors, always evangelizing Box as well as rooting on both the company and the powerful people who make it thrive from the sidelines. I will forever be grateful to have worked and grown alongside you.
Started from behind the desk and now I'm all up on it!
#drakesaiditbetter
