At the beginning of the month, Ros S. decided to celebrate her friend Lucille the Ball's 4th birthday with a contest to guess her weight. Four years ago, Ros was given the idea for making a name badge ball from a guest that was visiting Zappos. He had just been to another office that had a large rubber band ball (we have our own giant rubber band ball at our Kentucky warehouse), and thought it would be funny if we did something with the name badges we give to each guest that visits Zappos.

Four years later, Lucille is still growing strong. She is now an astounding 13.4 pounds, and 41 inches round. Many participated in guessing Lucille's weight, and Ros has chosen the four closest entries as winners!

Here are the four Winners:
Keith G. - 13.4 pounds (yes, he guessed the exact weight).
Maria E. - 13.5 pounds
Shauna S. - 13.5 Pounds
Stacy H. - 13 pounds

We have a very diverse culture at Zappos, with many people from all parts of the world. We thought it would be fun to see what accents people would want to have if they had a choice.

We went around the office and asked, "If you could have one accent, what would it be?"

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.

One of the many great things about having a culture class here at Zappos, is that there are so many great culture ideas that come from it. The two teams from this last class each came up with a great way to get everyone involved in building culture.

Earlier in the week, one of the teams put on their "Mad Hatter Tea Party." This gave everyone a chance to hang out, socialize and have some fun together. The other team from the class just rolled out their "Stairway to Culture" project. They took an empty stairway at the office, and turned it into an area that everyone can decorate and show how they feel about the culture.

These types of things show that you don't need to spend a bunch of money to get people involved and having fun at work. Culture is about the people and the environment that is created when everyone enjoys being together.