Thursday is a big day for Zapponians...it's your chance to help out your fellow man by giving blood!

Zappos.com teams up with United Blood Services for a company-wide blood drive for all employees and their families. And there is a special treat attached to this good deed: If you're signed up to give blood, our Help Desk star Ros will be baking for you! If you sign up for blood donation, Ros will supply you with Cupcakes and her signature Snickerdoodle sandwich cookies to get your energy back up. You can't beat that! Helping out and getting treated to sweet goodness such as this!

Employees are encouraged to bring in family members, but a reminder, anyone giving blood needs to be over 18 years old.

The drive will be from 10:30 AM-3:30 PM in the Shoesite Conference room in the 2290 building. See you there, Zappos!

Pat W. did a little research on what giving blood means to some people at Zappos, check out his premiere video for the Zappos Blogs below.

"You be trippin' if you don't donate your blood!" -Rosalind S. as Ubie from the United Blood Services

You may remember UbieUbie making an appearance here at the Zappos Headquarters in order to rally up Zapponians to give their blood in order to help save some lives. Well, the day is finally here and our Elvis Presley conference room looks like a crazy labratory complete with doctors in white coats (very fitting for our week of Halloween madness).

Donating blood really isn't for the faint of heart, nore for those who have been tattooed in the past year, nor for those who have lived out of this country for more than five years. So If you don't fall in any of those categories, then please...DONATE YOUR BLOOD!

'Tis the Season to donate your blood - either to a blood sucking vampire or United Blood Services, Inc. We don't discriminate if you do both, but we do recommend donating to United Blood Services, Inc.

On October 30th, Zapponians who wish to give their blood in order to help those in need, may, right here in our very own headquarters. It's quick, relatively painless, and you can say that you got your Blood drawn for real on the eve of Halloween! A few rules do apply: You must be at least 17 years old and in good health and if you are one who likes needles so much that you just got a full tattoo sleeve, then you need to wait a while before donating. For more information about blood donation and to see if you are eligible, you may go to the United Blood Services website.

Here's Ubie, the mascot of United Blood Services with a very important announcement:

You be trippin if you don't donate your blood!

For those who are interested, email rsearcy@zappos.com with THREE ideal appointment times and she'll get you in there.