Here in the Zappos photo department, a friendly competition was brewing between two of our supervisors. Dan and Mike showed off their adventurous side with a bubble gum chewing contest. The competition started off with a few pieces of gum, but quickly moved to Olympic standards. Dan finished with a respectable 15 pieces of gum while Mike took the win with 40 pieces of gum! Even though Mike took the win, Dan entertained with some bubble tricks to wow everyone. Just out of curiosity we looked up the record to see if our local guys had a chance, but when they found out the record was 82, they threw their wrappers in!



Blog By Jessica A and Photos By Debbie A

At Zappos.com, many traditions have stayed with us through the years, and the one big Christmas tradition has been the admiration that we all have for ugly Christmas sweaters. Or lack of admiration, not sure which is more accurate. It started many a year ago with a party in which everyone was expected to attend wearing the ugliest Christmas sweater that their local thrift shop had on the racks. And over the years, man, there have been some bad ones. This year is no exception.

Take a look below.

This year marks our fourth annual Halloween Costume Contest here at our Las Vegas offices, and it's another crazy one! We take this very seriously, and literally, more than half of the company dresses up!

This ruthless challenge between Tiffany G. and Stephanie S. all started last week with two packs of Pop-Rocks and Coca-Cola:

"What do you do when your parents send you a birthday package full of candy?? You share it with your coworkers. What do you do when others realize 2 packs of Pop Rocks are in this collection of candy? You allow them (Dave aka "EL IT" and Stephanie aka "Sims") to talk you into testing out an urban legend...downing Pop Rocks with a popular soft drink that comes in a shiny red can. If you turn up the volume, you can really hear the Pop Rocks crackling"

Well, the competition continues this week with the ultimate Pixie stick chugging challenge! Here's how the game's played, the competitors take a shot of the ever so popular powdered candy and then chug a coke as quickly as possible. Sounds simple right? Well rumor has it that pixie stick powder and coke don't mix as well as cookies and milk...hope nothing comes up in the middle of this one.

Lets see who's the victor of this week's challenge.


Stephanie Sims, you are one hard core pixie pixie chugging, coke drinking, crazy lady! Tiffany, you too are crazy, but better luck in next week's candy/coke competition.