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Zivil War!

Posted by Melissa L. Oct 9, 2008

Fore score and several weeks ago our Dev team raised up a great army unlike Zappos has ever seen in order to claim the 2300 building for their own. Today it was PM, UX, HR and Finance teams that decided to join troops and to fight this great army of nerf gun nerds. Though their courage is something that all of Zappos should honor, their army was no match for the smoke machine and customized nerf weapons.

Today we all take our hats off and bow down to the new kings of the hill - Development.

Maybe once the Finance and Human Resources army gains it's strength back, they will strike back

Tags: finance, ux, development, human_resources, inside_zappos, nerf_war, project_management, zivil_war, dev

Comments

ZC1710 09 Oct 08 at 10:02AM

The reporting on this story is inaccurate... team HR/PM/UX/Finance won the war, DEV was not able to enter our area and we held strong.

ZC10464 09 Oct 08 at 10:20AM

Hmmm...as I recall HR/PM/UX/Finance made feeble attempts to cross the DEV area (the only way out) and HR, etc. were overwhelmed by DEV's awesome tactics and skill back into their mouse holes. Figures that the history books would be rewritten on the "East" side. DEV even captured several prisoners while the opposition whimpered and made no attempt to rescue the members of their already weak force. For most of the "attack" on DEV, Finance wasn't even present...preferring to hide behind their bales of hay...DEV/FEZ are the champions!

Shawn_Smith 09 Oct 08 at 10:23AM

The story that ZC1710 is trying to tell is a lie. Team HR/PM/UX/Finance ended up retreating back to their own areas after being driven back from their unprovoked, dastardly assault on the FEZ/Dev/QA area. I cannot speak for the rest of FEZ/Dev/QA, but it is my opinion that any other attempt to attack us will invite an extremely asymmetric response.

Please, let us work together to avoid any further altercations. I shudder to think what the next battle will be like in a continually escalating zivil war.

Brian K. 09 Oct 08 at 11:00AM

Boo, misinformation... It was UX and PM as well!

ZC18178 09 Oct 08 at 11:16AM

I don't think an invading army is victorious when instead of conquering, they are beaten back and must fight hard to defend their own territory.

Brian K. 09 Oct 08 at 12:42PM in response to: Brian K.

yay, fixed information. I take that boo back, oob!

clar_iss_a pretty girl 09 Oct 08 at 01:58PM

WHY DIDNT ANY CALL CS FOR BACKUP??!! hahaha

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