October 16 is National Boss Day. Curious to know the origin of National Boss Day? Andrea Gurwitt of Herald News uncovered the background story.

Legend has it that it was started in 1958 by one Patricia Haroski, a secretary in a State Farm Insurance agency office in Deerfield, Ill. Haroski designated Oct. 16 as the celebratory day because it was her father’s birthday.

To make it official, to dot her i’s and cross her t’s, Haroski registered the day with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Or so the story goes.

That’s efficient and thorough, but it’s news to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

“No one here has records of it, and no one here knows how we would be involved,” says John Reid, director of communications for the chamber in Washington. “We don’t have any concept of us as an organization doing that kind of thing.”

By “that kind of thing,” he means registering holidays.

Keep reading as the hunt for the origin continues…

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