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National Boss Day was today. Not to be confused with International Bite Your Tongue Month or National Kiss Up Week. The idea is to honor bosses for being kind and fair, and definitely not for beating sales' projections or coming in under budget. (Leave that to their bosses.) Created in 1958, it apparently didn't become well-known until Hallmark started marketing cards in 1979. Same criteria today? The staffing-accounting firm Robert Half International Inc. did a survey in August asking how important it is that bosses have a sense of humor: 97 percent said "very" or "somewhat" important. And 87 percent said their bosses actually were good for a laugh. That includes ours. OK, we're off now to ask for a raise.

- Thomas Ginsberg