Kissing people as a form of greeting is something you tend to associate with Europeans, probably the French or Italians mainly,probably not with the Germans so much .
It is seemingly quite a major issue, apparently, with a leading German referring to people greeting each other at work with a kiss, as a form of terrorism.
According to a report in Management Today, Hans-Michael Klein (presumably not related to Melanie) is saying that Germans in offices are getting fed up with people going round kissing each other, and generally being too friendly.
Klein is chairman of a thing called the Knigge society, referred to as an ‘etiquette watchdog’, and is reporting mounting concern at the practice.
They’ve come up with a great solution, which is to put a note on your desk saying you don’t want to be kissed – but that may be too late !
Perhaps you should wear a clove of garlic round your neck instead.
