National Boss Day: Unless I Get the Day Off - Should I Care?

By Jackson SimpsonOct 16, 2007

National Boss Day is today - so what are you getting your boss? Why is there even a day for bosses, don't they get enough behind kissing each day and every day? Unless my lug of a boss shows up and tells me that I have the day off in honor of the day why should I even care? Here's one description of this useless and absolutely idiotic day on the calendar. "Boss's Day is an important secular holiday celebrated on October 16. It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their superior for being kind and fair throughout the year."
National Boss Day: It's Not About Bruce Springsteen (Image: Wenn)The description notes that the holiday has been the source of some controversy and criticism in the United States, where it is often mocked as a Hallmark Holiday." No kidding mocked? I believe that is what I am doing right here.
***Here's some history you can throw at the boss: The "holiday" began in 1958 when Patricia Bays Haroski, then an employee at State Farm Insurance Company in Deerfield, Ill., registered the holiday with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Haroski chose Oct. 16, her father's birthday, as the date for National Boss Day because she felt he was an exemplary boss.So - Hallmark is off the hook. But as there is money to be made Hallmark got into the game in 1979, manufacturing the first National Boss Day card. And this year, according to company spokeswoman Sarah Gronberg, the company increased its production of cards by 90 percent. Did I get my boss a card - what do you think? I'm writing this column on company time.