Perhaps not literally, but at least verbally.

This question goes out to both employees and business leaders - because managers serve both sides of this coin, often not an easy proposition.

Consider some of the challenges they are tasked with:

• They have to play good cop and bad cop and at the end of the day still be respected.
• They have to implement policies they didn't create.
• They have to have a good day, even when they're not having a good day because they're the example.
• They have to find creative ways to work around an employee's weaknesses.
• They are the suggestion box - often cloaked complaints.
• They have to find ways to challenge and fulfill employees in jobs that are repetitive.
• They have to deal with the drama.
• They have to fire people they care about.

So go ahead. Go to their office. Not with a complaint or a request, but simply with a thank you.