Employee Appreciation Gifts Just Got Weird
May 28, 2026
When was the last time an employee talked about a corporate gift after they opened it? Not to say thank you. Not to be polite. But actually brought it up unprompted, in the hallway, in a Slack channel, at the next all-hands? That does not happen with notebooks. It happens with BumZap.
The Employee Appreciation Gift Problem
Employee appreciation is a real thing that companies spend real money on every year. The intention is genuine. The execution, historically, has resulted in a lot of mugs. The mug is appreciated for approximately four seconds and then added to the collection of other mugs and never thought about again. The notebook is used once for a meeting and then replaced by a phone. The gift card requires remembering which restaurant it was for.
BumZap is a gift that lands. It is a premium handmade soap that zings the butthole and sensitive areas in the shower. The employee opens it, reads the label, has a moment, and then uses it the next morning out of curiosity. Then something happens in the shower. Then they use it the morning after that. Then it becomes part of the routine, and every morning when they get in the shower they are reminded, in a specific and hard-to-ignore way, that their employer gave them this, and that it was the best corporate gift they have ever received.
That is employee appreciation that actually appreciates.
Why Weird Works
Corporate gifts work best when they give employees something to talk about. The mug does not come up in conversation. The notebook does not surface at the all-hands. BumZap comes up at the all-hands. Not during the prepared remarks necessarily, but afterward, in the hallway, in the Slack channel that is supposed to be for project updates, in the way that only a genuinely unexpected gift can generate conversation in a workplace that has seen every gift before.
And then every morning in the shower, the zing happens, and the employee thinks about who gave it to them, and the answer is you, and that is a brand impression that no mug has ever achieved.
Custom Labels for Your Team
BumZap corporate orders can come with custom labels. The label can feature your company name, your logo, a tagline, a date, or whatever the occasion calls for. The soap underneath the label is the same soap. The zing is the same zing. The customization makes it specific to your team, which makes it a corporate gift rather than just a very good soap, though it is also that.
Custom labels are available for employee appreciation programs, onboarding kits, holiday gifting, team milestones, and any other occasion where handing someone a soap that zings their butthole feels like the right move. Which, in our experience, is most occasions.
Who This Is For
BumZap corporate gifts work for teams of any size. The ten-person startup that wants to do something memorable for its first company anniversary. The mid-size company whose holiday gift committee has run out of ideas and is quietly desperate. The Fortune 500 HR department that has sent the same gift basket for eleven consecutive years and is ready to do something different.
All of them. BumZap is for all of them.
Inquire about BumZap corporate orders.
A Note on HR
We are aware that distributing a soap that zings your butthole as an employee appreciation gift requires a certain kind of HR department. Specifically, one that has a sense of humor, an understanding that BumZap is a legitimate quality soap underneath the joke, and a willingness to send an email to the entire company with the word butthole in it.
Not every HR department is ready for this. That is fine. The ones that are ready will be remembered forever. Their employees will be happier. Their all-hands will be more interesting. Their drawer will remain empty, because BumZap went in the shower where it belongs. Ultimately, we believe these are the companies that will win in the market. You want to win, don't you?
