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mrsbrownI don't understand the social nuances around kissing as greeting. Particularly with men I know professionally (did that come out right?).
I think that I'm supposed to greet men with a kiss (peck on the cheek) when I know them better than as a casual acquaintance. So men I worked with 5 years ago. But not men I work with now.
I just had two men I worked with 5 years ago in my office for a meeting with someone else. I noticed them as they came out of a nearby room. One was older, he kissed first and I followed suit. The other was younger, but also my former boss. I initiated the kiss, because I thought that's what I had to do after kissing the older man in greeting.
In other situations have been required to greet a man with a kiss when I don't work with him every day and I am meeting him in a social situation - at a business lunch for example.
But I'm an engineer. Other engineers just shake hands with each other. I'd much rather shake hands, but I can't if they go to kiss me.
Also, I don't really feel comfortable with this kissing thing. Even if I did understand the rules. eeugh!
I think that I'm supposed to greet men with a kiss (peck on the cheek) when I know them better than as a casual acquaintance. So men I worked with 5 years ago. But not men I work with now.
I just had two men I worked with 5 years ago in my office for a meeting with someone else. I noticed them as they came out of a nearby room. One was older, he kissed first and I followed suit. The other was younger, but also my former boss. I initiated the kiss, because I thought that's what I had to do after kissing the older man in greeting.
In other situations have been required to greet a man with a kiss when I don't work with him every day and I am meeting him in a social situation - at a business lunch for example.
But I'm an engineer. Other engineers just shake hands with each other. I'd much rather shake hands, but I can't if they go to kiss me.
Also, I don't really feel comfortable with this kissing thing. Even if I did understand the rules. eeugh!
