Melaleuca Mayhem

Okay so I have been putting this off for a while and now it is time to do this. I have left my Director of Information Technology position at DocuTech and accepted a position of Sr. Developer Analyst at Melaleuca on the 8th of September. This was a needed and welcome change of pace for me. I no longer have 100 things a day to work on. I can actually just focus on my two or three projects and just get something done (yah)!

Well last Thursday happened to be Halloween at Melaleuca. They did not celebrate Halloween on Friday becase of month-end where they get a ton of orders and they need to be focused on that. So Thursday was the day to celebrate. Every year the employees get to bring their kids to work and go trick-or-treating. They have an estabished trick-or-treat path through the Home Office that winds through each department. Each department goes all out when decorating. The company is transformed in one day for Halloween in which you would not recognize the place. Very little to no work gets done on that day. Everyone walks around in character and just has fun. It is a steady stream of kids throught the building for 8 hours. That's got to be a lot of candy!

From what I hear IT set the bar high when they moved over to the Home Office. Last year they had a Harry Potter theme, which had moving/interactive pictures and all sorts of cool stuff. Well this year they had to meet the same level and go beyond that. So it was Star Wars this year. There was a hologram setup as the kids walked into the department then each aisle was a theme like Mos Eisley, Jawa Crawler, Endor, or Melenium Falcon. Then at the end there was an interactive display with the Emperor. Needless to say some kids were in awe, some did not know what to think and others were scared (even by Chewy).

Other departments were Jungle (Marketing), High School Musical (Sales), Spooky Alley, Trailer Park, Never Land (Call Center), Rock Band (Business Development). Below are some of the photos we took, Enjoy!