Anyone who knows anything about Kentucky sports knows about the rivalry between the Louisville Cardinals and the Kentucky Wildcats, and the Zappos warehouse is not exception. Whether you bleed blue or you're a hardcore Cardinals fan, you can't deny the blast we all had on Wednesday's Tailgating lunch!

Everyone brought their team spirit and red/blue shirts and hats! We had a DJ playing loud booty shakin’ music with real live dancers from U of L! The Lady Birdies put on a great show for everyone at lunch time. Great hamburgers, hot dogs and fries with lots of prizes! We all filled out a sheet of paper with our team circled (Louisville Or Kentucky) for a drawing to win a set of awesome tailgating stuff including team chairs, a small grill, charcoal, cooler, football, a blanket/throw and just all kinds of fun stuff.

Night shift had a fire pit for some light source, and they made some yummy S'mores. Great times! Just ANOTHER reason why I love working at Zappos. Thank You SO SO SO much for everyone who had a hand in putting this event together!



So with all that being said... What's your color?!

It’s official. June 30th has been designated Joon Fools Day by the Photo Department. In a remarkable attempt to pull the greatest prank on our resident prankster, the entire team got together and, with some help from HR and some well placed articles by CNN, we convinced our resident prankster and techie nerd that Zappos had bought up all of the newly released iPhones and passed them out to team members at our All Hands Meeting a couple of weeks ago. One that Joon didn’t attend.

We kept the joke going all day with congratulations e-mails from HR and websites mentioning that the state of Kentucky was completely sold out. Joon was so eaten up that he missed out that by lunchtime he was begging those that had received one to either let him buy theirs at deep discounts or trading 6 hours of hard labor for one.

In the end we rounded up the team and pretended to present a new phone to Joon. Little did he know it was an iPhone box filled with images of middle fingers- a little joke that Joon likes to do with Post-it notes throughout the department.

Check out how excited he is in the video- he knows that something exciting is going on but he has no idea what lies in store. Thanks for being such a good sport Joon, and remember that you always get what you dish out tenfold!!

WRITTEN BY DAN C.

Derby is no longer just for us Bluegrass residents! Robots can have Derby too! Right?! Yes they can! Some KIVA folks flew in last week from Boston to show us that! They came to the Zappos.com Kentucky warehouse and recorded some robot action! With that they put together some awesome stop action work to create the scenes for the KIVA Kentucky Derby!

They did a great job! Watch it!