Usana

In the Health Supplement industry, THE BEST there is. After being heavily in the health and fitness industry the past 3 years knowing that a company has high quality products that go through rigorous testing and the facility is registered and approved by the FDA is awesome. But not only that, being able to see all that is even more impressive.

Hmmm. MLM? Nutritional Supplements? Semi-​fanatical employees? I’m not one of them, but hell it’d make for an interesting experience.
On the way to Utah, my new acquaintances had hyped up the trip to almost heavenly proportions. Now we were at the source of the pandemonium.
For many of the Usana «associates» it almost seemed like a pilgrimage. I kept looking around to make sure I wasn’t missing any unicorns ridden by chocolate tossing leprechauns.
«Aren’t you excited?!», enthusiastically states one Usana member.
«Uhh, yeah, it’s great???», I reply as I stare out at the brown importing and exporting room.
The place is nice. I was expecting something more along the lines of Google where playtime is merged together with work. Here it seems like a fairly typical corporate headquarters. The only thing that I wished I had at my office were the desks where you can adjust it to standing height. There is a gym, lunchroom, basketball court, and new volleyball court; yet, what is there to be excited about?
The lunchroom hosts a salad bar, several freezers full of pre-​packed lunches, and a smoothie machine. Some people were raging over the ginger papaya banana smoothies yet the machine kept getting depleted for me to try it out. My cranberry wrap was pretty good and tasted very healthy.
One major complaint, just where are the freebies? We trek all the way from California and no free lunch? How ’bout a keychain? No keychain? How bout a free trial AOL cd? NO CD? JEEZ!
Even though we left empty handed, many Usana associates left content knowing that they had the chance to reunite with their sacred MLM headquarter. No need for freebies when you can take a picture with a Usana sign.