My boss used to keep a bowl of candy on her desk, just for employees (she has a back office and doesn't normally see customers). Some years, for Christmas or her birthday, I would give her "the gift that keeps on giving" -- twenty dollars' or so of bulk candy. I always got the kinds I liked: Reese's minatures, Hershey's Kisses, that sort of thing.

The chocolates never lasted anywhere *near* as long as the hard candies she stocked the rest of the year. That's why she normally kept mints and other hard candies. Being less loved is sometimes a *good* thing. :)