"morning" "morning" "morning" "morning" "morning" "morning"

[portseven]

Be thankful you don't work in France. I've heard you have to kiss everyone on all four cheeks every morning all the way to your desk.

Do you get danger money?

[darmstadt]

Yep, everyone walks past my office and says Morgen and I kindof reply. I even had one of the managers come in and tell me that we say 'Guten Morgen' here because he never heard me reply to his salutation! At about 10:00 to 15:00 then its bloody 'Mahlzeit.'

[kaiser78]

Where I am noone says goodbye in the evening - they just up and leave. Suits me fine !

[Halo Jones]

I am first on site in the morning & have had 2 coffee’s before everyone else arrives so I am the annoyingly cheerful one to them

[mudskipper]

When I was in Germany for a few days (working with Europeans of various persuasions) I was expected to kiss total strangers. Very traumatic. Especially when the English bloke from my office thought he'd join in on the act.

[darmstadt]

When I was in Germany for a few days (working with Europeans of various persuasions) I was expected to kiss total strangers. Very traumatic. Especially when the English bloke from my office thought he'd join in on the act.

Sounds more like you were in a 'dodgy' part of Hamburg, I've never had that nor seen it...

[Pogle]

I get up early and am in the office first, I am (apparently) hideously cheerful and chatty in the mornings. Cant help it, its my natural Northern charm.

[norrahe]

I get up early and am in the office first, I am (apparently) hideously cheerful and chatty in the mornings. Cant help it, its my natural Northern charm.

You are also very chatty after several voddy's and tonics and seem to have an aversion to people who drink halves (IIRC from the London drinks).

[ASB]

Try a French office. You must shake hands with everybody the first time you meet them every day. But you should not do it a second time in one day, so you may end up discussing whether you have already shaken hands today or not.

Then ther's the right number of kisses, when all that is done it's time for coffee.

Then lunch.

And make sure everybody is still OK on return from lunch.

Then there's afternoon coffee and home time. Amazed me I ever got any work done.

Oh hang on....

[quackhandle]

I usually utter one or two mornings to those around me, just to be polite. Usually they get "Same tulip different day".

Current client is NHS so for the past three weeks it's been lots of menopausal women asking each other if they've gotten to the dirty chapter yet on FSOG.

qh