Boss’s Day is October 16. I thought it was interesting to look into the history of Boss’s Day. Boss’s Day is explained by www.wikipedia.org as:
Boss’s Day (also known as Bosses Day or National Boss Day) is a secular holiday celebrated on October 16 in the United States. It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair throughout the year.
The history is detailed as follows:
Patricia Bays Haroski registered “National Boss’s Day” with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1958. She was working as a secretary for State Farm Insurance Company in Deerfield, Illinois at the time and chose October 16 because she forgot that the birthday of her boss, who was her father, was actually on the 16th. Four years later in 1962, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner backed Haroski’s registration and officially proclaimed the day.
Wikipedia states the observance of the day as “A day to celebrate having a job.”
What I love about the story is it tells a tale about a daughter whose father is also her boss. The back of the story conveys the love, appreciation, and respect that she has for someone who means a lot to her. So she came up with a creative “birthday” gift idea.
Do you have a boss who inspires you, encourages you, gives you the tools to continue to learn, grow, and expand as a professional? Do you have great respect for him/her not only as your boss, but as a person? Is he/she a person whom you admire and look up to? Is he/she someone that you desire to emulate and learn from in both the professional and personal life they lead in both action and word?
So what creative ideas have you come up with to “celebrate having a job,” but, more importantly, to express your appreciation in getting to come to work every day and work with the “greatest boss ever!”
Would love to hear your stories, inspirations, and ideas. Don’t forget this Friday, October 16 is Boss’s Day.
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