“Our employees are supposed to deal with opening and closing each and every package,” Kota says. But not every customer is willing to wait.
Owing to issues of loss prevention and hygiene-even before COVID-19 struck-Spirit’s policy is to let employees open items and then package them back up. If a Spirit Halloween employee is eyeing you with a little bit of consternation, it might be because you ripped open a costume package. Spirit Halloween employees are happy to help with your costume selection. Spirit Halloween employees are supposed to open costume packages for customers. “It's something that all employees have in common from my experience … It's a perfect place to meet people with the same interests.” 2. “I've never once worked with an employee that didn't love Halloween,” Kota, a five-year veteran of Spirit Halloween in Kentucky, tells Mental Floss. Why take on a seasonal job with no potential for year-round work? If you love Halloween and the macabre, it’s a dream job. Most Spirit Halloween employees really, really love Halloween. Here’s what they had to say about everything from customers making a mess to the hazards of trying on a mask during this pandemic-heavy Halloween. To get a better feel for what goes into this spooky vocation, Mental Floss reached out to several current Spirit Halloween team members. In order to assist shoppers with Halloween costumes, decorations, and animatronic creatures, Spirit employs a small army of seasonal workers. But now, seeing a Spirit pop-up materialize in a vacant building has become as much of a Halloween tradition as pumpkin carving. When Joe Marver founded Spirit Halloween in 1983, he probably didn’t have any idea his seasonal Halloween store would eventually grow to over 1300 locations in the United States and Canada.