The Zappos Customer Loyalty Team works 24 hours a day/seven days a week, doing everything they can to take care of our customers. So when they get a chance to get out and have a good time, they sure know how to party, people! This week they had a happy hour to have some fun and recognize their co-workers for a job well done.

We all ate a lot, played games, like beer pong and pool, gave out awards to celebrate some of their accomplishments, and like all Zappos parties, had a few drinks.

Over drinks and Karaoke at a Zappos Customer Loyalty Happy Hour, we discuss what CLT means to us.

The week of January 5 through January 10th was a mighty crazy week for the Help Desk Team. While the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brings thousands of folks to Las Vegas, it also brought a few people through Zappos. During that week the Help Desk had a grand total of 109 shuttle runs and 42 tours!! 38 of those 109 shuttle runs were done in one day.

Right smack dab in the middle of the week was the merch quarterly recognition happy hour and a party hosted by Zappos and Intel... Both of these parties were done on the same night :) It was definitely one of the busiest weeks that I have seen while working here! By the end of the week I think that we were all a little delirious! Thanks to everyone who helped the help desk with all of the tours!

Last week, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh sent out a Twitter to all who were in Vegas attending the PubCon Search Marketing Conference and invited them out to magnificant night of drinking, mingling and good rock and roll. The event, which was held at Wasted Space in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, became a hotbed of SEO-Meisters who were all alerted about the 'Tweetup' via a Tony-Tweet.

Everyone was told that the way to gain entry to the event was to simply write the word 'Zappos' on their arm. Below is a video of what went down. Take it away!

Thanks to everyone who came out and partied with Zappos!

Remember the game Barrel of Monkeys? Milton Bradley sold the game, which came with a toy barrel in blue, red, yellow or green with 12 tiny toy monkeys. How you played was you hooked a monkey to the barrel, then hooked another monkey to that monkey's arm, and so on and so on, creating a chain of monkeys. When a monkey falls, your turn is over.

Sounds like fun to me. If I were four years old.

But at a recent happy hour, I was reminded of the innocent game. Someone ordered a chocolate-banana drink from the bar, which comes with a plastic monkey. After throwing back a few drinks ourselves, Derek Carder and I looked at this monkey, then looked at each other, clearly thinking the same brilliant idea. We asked the bartender for extra monkeys, and after enduring a few weird looks, we played our own version of Barrel of Monkeys.



I won! Shoot...how will I drink my beer now?



An army of monkeys. Wow, look at all those empty glasses in the background...


Monkeys are delicious.

Hey, our own version of Barrel of Monkeys, employees slapping the CEO, you never know what to expect at a Zappos happy hour.

Below is a glimpse into your standard insanity of a Zappos Happy Hour. Not for the faint of heart!


And....the slap heard round the Inn Zone.

Lots a great comments to me personally (though none posted) about Andrea's Winged Sunglasses art project from Happy Hour last Thursday. Here's a few more! Steve, Andy, Chris Jerry, Brian, Meg, Brett, Richard, Thad and Tony himself! You're all ready for Bingo Night at the Trop!

So, Andrea.... what will you be doing for the next happy hour?