Corporate Gift Basket Ideas

One morning, my coworker Steve walked up to me, as he usually does. This time was a little different, however—Steve had a confused look on his face, and was carrying a piece of paper I didn't recognize. I paused what I was doing (looking for corporate gifts with logo for our annual company picnic). Steve asked me how my morning was going, and I told him that I was searching for corporate gift basket ideas for the award winners at the picnic.

I paused my search for corporate gift baskets and asked Steve what he was carrying. He asked if I would be able to take a minute to chat—he was super confused and wasn't sure what to do with the piece of paper that someone left on his door. Steve showed me the confusing coupon. It said that it was good for 90% off, but we couldn't figure out what was offered at such a great price. It didn't have anything to do with the corporate gifts I was searching for, and it didn't seem to be connected to the office gift baskets we ordered for our supervisor appreciation week a few days prior.

The piece of paper had an address, a website, and a phone number, so we figured that with a little bit of detective work, we could get to the bottom of the great deal that someone left taped to Steve's door.

We thought that perhaps someone who spoke English as a second language had written the coupon, so we walked away from my search for luxury corporate gift baskets to talk with some of the people in our office who spoke more than one language.

We stopped to talk to a few of our coworkers who were fluent in Mandarin, Spanish, and French. We made some small talk about the corporate gift baskets for clients that we were trying to get shipped out, and then we got to work on trying to decipher the message behind the coupon. They were stumped.

One of our supervisors is great with Latin, so we asked him to take a look as well. He excitedly asked us about the luxury corporate gifts for the picnic, then took a look at the coupon. He was clueless too. He told us to go ahead and continue looking for luxury gift baskets, and to let him know if we had any luck figuring out where the mystery piece of paper came from.

We sat back down at my desk and clicked away from our search for the best corporate gift baskets. We knew that we could return to looking for unique gift baskets for the picnic later—our priority now was to learn more about where the coupon came from and what exactly we were eligible to purchase for 90% off.

My direct supervisor called to ask how the search for the best luxury gift baskets was going, and we told him that we were taking a break to try to figure out the mystery. He told us to keep him posted on both our search for gourmet gift baskets and what we found out about the coupon.

Sadly, the website was blocked by a firewall. We couldn't get the information we needed. I returned to my search for unique corporate gift baskets, frustrated that Steve and I weren't getting the information we needed to figure out the coupon mystery.

After I made a solid list of my best corporate gifts 2020 for the picnic, Steve and I decided to take another break from searching for corporate gift ideas for employees to call the phone number on the coupon. I was in a rush because I still needed to finish up my list of corporate gift ideas for executives, but I was too excited to solve the mystery with Steve to spend too much time searching for creative corporate gift ideas.

I told Steve I was happy to step back from choosing corporate gift ideas Philippines for a few minutes. I pulled out my phone, closed all the corporate gift ideas tabs I had opened, and called the number. I was excited to talk to the person on the other end of the line about something other than gift ideas for VIP clients and employees, but sadly, my chance to switch up the conversation from unique client gift ideas to an exciting discount never solidified. The phone rang and rang, but no one ever picked up, and there was no option to leave a voicemail.

Instructions: I was ready to let it go, but he wouldn't. He'd buy anything for 90% off, and he couldn't rest until he found out what it was.

I went back to choosing gift basket ideas for business clients and our employees. I asked Steve if he wanted to help choose the gift basket for office staff, but he wasn't ready to let the coupon go. I told him I didn't have much time left to figure out the corporate gift basket ideas, but he insisted that we pause the search for a gift basket for group members and learn more about the coupon.

I told him I was willing to stop looking for the best office gift baskets for a while, and he was excited to put our detective skills to good use. He asked what I was doing for lunch, and I told him that I was happy to keep working with him to figure out where the coupon came from.

Instructions: So, instead of going to lunch, we drove to the address on the coupon. We let the GPS guide us and ended up in the middle of a local park, next to a pavilion and snack stand that was closed for the season.

We continued to put the search for corporate gift baskets for employees on hold, and we drove to the address on the coupon, chatting about the best gift baskets for employees working from home along the way. As we talked about our love for unique office gift baskets, we were led to a local park. We kept chatting about corporate gifts for employees as we parked the car and began to look around to solve the mystery.

We chatted about a potential gift basket for group of employees as we walked from building to building throughout the park. We were led down a long path to a brown pavilion, near the lake at the center of the park. We stopped talking about home office gift basket options for a moment, and we found that the address on the coupon matched that of a snack stand next to the pavilion.

We chatted about how the snacks typically sold at the stand—spicy chips and beef jerky, if I remember correctly—would have been a good fit for the unique gift baskets we were discussing. The snack stand, however, was totally shut down and looked like it hadn't been in operation for months. The window through which snacks were typically served was closed and padlocked shut. We double-checked the address on the coupon, and sure enough, we were in the right place. We decided that our search had to end.

We returned to the office, and I kept up my task of deciding on the best corporate gift baskets with logo for the picnic. As I was choosing our customized corporate gifts from some of our favorite luxury corporate gifting companies, Steve stopped by my desk again. He took a look at the corporate gifts for employees that I selected for the picnic, and then told me what I already knew—he couldn't stop thinking about the coupon.

I paused my job of choosing the best custom gift baskets once again to listen to Steve talk about how he couldn't get the coupon out of his mind. I was only half listening to him—I was busy trying to figure out how I was going to complete choosing unique corporate gift baskets and other unique corporate gifts before the end of the day. Steve told me that he couldn't bring himself to throw away the coupon.

To this day, Steve still keeps the coupon tacked up in his office. Every once in a while, he calls the number, with the same result as before. Maybe one day, someone will finally answer, and Steve will be able to put the 90% mystery behind him.