Holiday Greetings: Do They Still Have a Place in the Heart Or Has the Ritual Become Downright Intrusive and Annoying?

 An exhausted nation tried to settle into a relaxed restful Thanksgiving weekend.

In the process, some told me, they were annoyed with the greetings wishing them Happy Thanksgiving. Essentially they wanted to be left alone to retreat into private space. In addition, we have become an overcommunicated society, with messaging, both personal and commercial, coming through voice, texting, email, DM, social networks, and more. The joke could be: Next, advertisers and those trying to sell to us on LinkedIn Updates will resort to smoke signals.

One business issue in all this is, of course: Should you transmit a holiday greeting to those in your professional life, ranging from customers/clients to colleagues?

Maybe not.

Several clients for my intuitive career coaching practice ran by me their dismay that those they have contacted hadn't responded back. Had they made an interactional mistake? This question looms big, given the myriad holidays coming up in December.

My recommendation has been to think through such messaging. Professional anonymous networks such as Reddit and Fishbowl have kicked off debates about receiving or not receiving, sending or not sending holiday greetings.

No longer is the ritual a neutral one. In this scary time of reductions-in-force and performance-based terminations anxious employees feel forced to read into all that. In a way it's perceived as intrusive. In another way it can reassure that management still has a heart. 

On a personal level, more of us have been relieved that those close to us did not start off the long weekend with a holiday greeting. Much more welcome was the concrete invitation to treat us to lunch.

In these uncertain times, especially economically, so much has changed. That includes our experience with traditional rituals. Thank you for not telling me to enjoy the holidays. 

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