A day to stick it to da man (preferably a nice card)
Published: Sun, Oct. 12, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Sun, Oct. 12, 2008 02:05AM
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closeNational Boss Day, believe it or not, was not invented by a greeting card company.
Honest. The folks at Hallmark say so themselves.
The annual day of commemoration was born in 1958 when Patricia Bays Haroski, an insurance company employee in Deerfield, Ill., registered the holiday with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Haroski chose Oct. 16 to honor her father (it was his birthday), whom she thought of as the ideal boss.
These days, National Boss Day is celebrated internationally, even in Australia and South Africa.
Hallmark got into the game in 1979, manufacturing the first National Boss Day card. And in 2007, said spokeswoman Sarah Gronberg, the company increased its production of cards by 90 percent.
The most popular are the humorous ones, Gronberg added; "The trend is to just have fun with it." Buyers "want to strike the right tone -- lighthearted and not too personal."
About two-thirds of adult Americans are employed full time or part time, according to the Census Bureau. So unless you landed an inheritance or won the lottery, you probably need to strike "you're not the boss of me" from your vocabulary.
And with the current economic crisis causing rising unemployment, it can't hurt to get something small for that special person who signs your paycheck.
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