????職務：高級人力資源經理

????任職公司：在線零售商扎珀斯

????扎珀斯（Zappos）以古怪的公司文化為榮。比如，在公司網站的招聘頁面上，有一個“扎珀斯家庭音樂視頻”。里面有各種稀奇古怪的動作，其中有一個穿著熱狗服裝的家伙在翻跟斗。

????很明顯，這家在線零售商一直不缺少奇葩。早在2004年，當時扎珀斯還只有約100名員工，克里斯緹娜?弗雷參加了公司第一個人力資源專員職位的面試。在那里，她遭遇了一場惡作劇。

????她本來就已經對面試就已經有點緊張了。這家公司以超級隨意著稱。她說道：“我記得，當時我想：‘我該不該穿套裝呢？’最后我穿了一身長褲套裝，這樣我可以把外套脫掉，看起來也就沒有正式上班族那么拘束了。”

????弗雷見到了兩位扎珀斯員工，他們要求她捉弄一下即將對她進行面試的公司高管弗雷德?莫斯勒與公司CEO謝家華。他們讓她問兩位高管，在小學時謝家華是不是長得比莫斯勒高。弗雷說：“如果你了解謝家華和弗雷德的話，你就會發現這很有趣。弗雷德大約有六英尺高，而謝家華則是一個矮小的亞洲男人。”

????這是她提出的第一個問題，她認為這是在測試她有多容易相處，膽子夠不夠大。

????倒霉的是，“這個惡作劇徹底搞砸了。他們兩個面面相覷，都一臉疑惑。”

????事實上，雖然扎珀斯是個古怪的地方，但公司高管對于人才招聘卻非常嚴肅。弗雷的問題讓他們一頭霧水，但他們還是繼續面試，當然開玩笑的員工后來出面澄清了誤會。最后，雖然弗雷又領教了扎珀斯內部的一些古怪行為，但還是得到了那份工作。

????弗雷現在成了謝家華的好友。不過，她說“在最開始的六個月，我甚至都不敢看他。”

????那些喜歡惡作劇的員工呢？“我認為他們只是彼此開玩笑。玩笑沒起到效果，讓我對自己喜劇細胞的缺乏很是慚愧。”

????Title: Senior HR Manager

????Company: Zappos

????Zappos prides itself on being a kooky place. For example, there is a "Zappos Family Music Video" on the jobs page of its website that features, among other antics, a guy wearing a hotdog suit doing a backflip.

????The online retailer has always been full of goobers, apparently. In fact, back in 2004, when Zappos only had about 100 employees, Christa Foley was interviewing to be the company's first HR generalist. And she got caught in the middle of a practical joke.

????She was already a little nervous about the interview. The company was known for being super casual, she says. "I remember thinking, 'should I wear a suit or not?' I ended up wearing a pantsuit so I could take my jacket off and look less corporate-y."

????Foley interviewed with two Zappos employees who asked her to play a joke on senior executive Fred Mossler and CEO Tony Hsieh, who were interviewing her next. They told her to ask the senior Zappos execs if Hsieh had been taller than Mossler in grade school. "It's funny if you know Tony and Fred," says Foley. "Fred is like six-foot-something, and Tony is a small Asian man."

????It was the first question she asked, assuming that it was a test of how easygoing and carefree she could be.

????Unfortunately, "It totally flopped. They literally looked at each other with a confused expression."

????Turns out Zappos is zany, but its top managers were pretty serious about hiring talent. They continued with the interview, although they were confused by her question, which the jokesters later cleared up. Foley got the job, despite getting caught up in some intra-Zappos antics.

????Foley is friends with Hsieh now, she says, but "for the first six months, I couldn't even look at Tony."

????As for the pranksters? "I think they were having fun with each other. I blame my lack of comic skills for not landing the joke."