Remember the year your mom didn't want to spend money on a costume, so she made on by hand that you were so embarrassed to wear. How about that costume you just had to have of your favorite teen idol.

Almost everyone has memories of that one bad costume. We went around the Zappos office and asked, "What was your worst Halloween costume?"

It's our favorite time of the year, Halloween costume contest season!
Which Costume is your favorite?

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Remember when we told you our HR team participated in a game show? The episode of "Lets make a deal" aired yesterday and is on CBS.com all day today. Click the link above and watch Altovise and the rest of our HR team today! Altovise and the rest of our awesome Human "Resourcers" appear at the 15:00 minute mark!

It's officially peak season here at the Zappos Fulfillment Center, and peak season= craziness. But of course we have some AWESOME Zapponians that will step up and get the job done. We want to highlight our rockin' Receiving Department and all of their hard work as they kick off the peak season. They truly are superheroes. Great job you guys!

We definitely enjoy our coworkers at Zappos, but we enjoy pranking them just as much! Corey S. shows us that they can't all be zingers, and that good things come to those who wait. Why wait until halloween night to start scaring people? Support your local prankster!

This week the Customer Loyalty Team graduated the newest class into the call center from incubation. Right after the initial four week new hire training class, all new members to the customer loyalty team go through a three week incubation period. During this time, they go through more training on policies and procedures, and gain the necessary skills needed to give our customers the very best service possible.

This training period also gives new employees a chance to learn and be a part of the Zappos culture. Here are some of the newest graduates talking about what their experience has been like at Zappos since they started.

I know I am not alone when I say we have the most awesome Employee Handbook ever, yessir.

From the interviews of our Fulfillment Center and Monkey Row, to the breakdown of benefits and "How to Play Nice", the staff really outdid themselves. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this amazing extension of our culture!

Last week our HR team dressed up in costumes ranging in everything from Bananas to Hot Dogs. I insisted on taking their picture and found out immediately after that they were headed for a team outing. I could understand hanging out in the office dressed like that, but in Public? "No no, we're going to be on a game show, you're supposed to dress up" one of them said.

While I can't tell you which game show they were on, I can tell you who they are.

Back row (+Left to right+)Jacob P., Altovise M, Maritza L,
Jamie N, Eric V, Erica J, Hollie D, and Christa F.

Front Row(+Left to Right+) Rebecca R, Lindsay K, Cheryl H.

missing from photo:Brandis P, Drew K .

We show our appreciation for coworkers a little differently around here. Welcome to Neal-a-Palooza.

The first week of October is national Customer Service Week. Each year during this time, Zappos plans a lot of fun activities to recognize employees for a job well done. To kick off customer service week, we had an Oktoberfest carnival here at the Zappos office. With carnival games and some great tasting food, this was a great start to an entire week of fun.

Each day this week, we are going to have some fun and exciting things going on around the Zappos office. More craziness to come...

As usual for Zappos; expect the unexpected …. on August 12 and 13th we were invaded by Hippies who all seemed to be looking for Woodstock.

So we made Woodstock happen, from the Volkswagen beetle to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin blaring on the Zafe Speakers. Team members really stepped up to show their hippie style from Bell bottoms to Tie Dye shirts. We even saw a pair of Hot pink Platform Boots in Pack/Ship.

KYCT set up to take photos of our Hippies in the FC. Each team that wanted their photo taken contributed $1 for the Zinny jar (which goes to charity) and some gave more than the $1…..just because!

Thank you to everyone who helped out to make this happen.


written by: Susan D.

As our blogger Melissa put it, "There must be something is the water here at Zappos, because we have a lot of expecting mothers walking around the office recently." Our Brand Marketing Manager, Michelle T, is the most recent expecting mother to be due in a few weeks.

Since Michelle has hit the point where the baby could come at any time, the marketing department decided it would be a good time to throw her a little party. The Zappos brand marketing, creative services and blogs team all got together at a local coffee shop to have coffee and cupcakes while celebrating with Michelle.

Congratulations Michelle!

As part of our Rivalry Week festivities, we had a Duct Tape Challenge here at the KY Fulfillment Center. The only rules were to pick red or blue and let your creativity run wild. Our team members did a great job! We're always up for creating a little fun.



And the winning team:

THE SOLUTIONS TEAM with their UK Avenger Superhero Costume.



Congrats to everyone for making some awesome duct tape outfits!

On Wednesday, July 8, 2009, it was a time for play. For those of you that missed out, our managers took the time to put together an employee appreciation day just for us. The managers not only participated in the activities on their shift, but also took the time to participate in the festivities of the opposite shift as well.

We were called to the zafe area a little after start-up, where Anthony V. announced we were going to have two hours of fun and games for the first employee appreciation day held at the new warehouse. We were then herded to the side door and greeted with chicken and pork chops. This was not only wonderful because it was such great food, but also because it was soup, salad and sandwich day.

There were plenty of activities to participate in. We had our blow-up obstacle course along with a blow-up rock wall. If you didn't want to play in either of them, you could participate in karaoke, dodge ball, limbo, sack races, shoe toss or the money box.

This was the first time I have witnessed an event held at Zappos in which everyone got together and got paid to play and have fun. It was a pretty amazing day at the fulfillment center. I definitely felt the positive team and family spirit. I, along with the rest of our team, would like to give a BIG thank you to all of our managers here at Zappos!

-Erin S.

Have you ever bought a car sunshade that took you more time to fold than the time that your car will actually be parked out in the sun? Well, the new Zappos.com sunshade, exclusively from the Zappos Zollar Store, is kind of like that...or maybe it's just me.