Handshakes

[Milkfloat]

If anyone tries the palm down handshake on me then I just twist their hand the right way up.

 

[MarkF]

A hand shake was a doddle for me in business, but since I've wound down, it's become awkward. Black men don't shake my hand, it's a weird finger wiggle and then a shake, Pakistani/Brits just do the "knock together" fists, it's minefield for a middle aged man, bit like rock, paper, scissors.

 

[Drago]

Anyone plays silly handshake games with me and I close my hand round the fingers rather than the palms, and I crush, crush, CRUSH them into submission. Wwwwaaahhhhaaahhhaahhhahahahahahahaha.....

Black men don't shake my hand...

I told you that KKK mask did you no favours, but you wouldn't listen!

 

[ufkacbln]

 

[keithmac]

Anybody who plays handshake games with me gets a hug instead, knocks them completely off coarse and a joy to watch .

 

[PeteXXX]

The Eastern European community, at my workplace, all shake hands when they meet. As I am fluent in ten words of Polish (at least six of them are polite) they proffer a right hand to me as well.

 

[raleighnut]

Anyone trying that palm down nonsense on me is guaranteed not to get my business. And they're risking a Chinese burn as well...

 

[Drago]

In the SAR community there's a lot of childish nose thumbing in response to an offered hand, followed by a laugh and lots of manly back slapping.

 

[nickyboy]

Anyone who offers me the "tennis player"....hand upwards and lock thumbs....get's a punch on the nose from me

Thankfully, in business throughout the world, I've only ever had the "normal" handshake but I fear the Tennis is coming some day

 

[Crackle]

I never got used to working in a French office where everyone comes in and goes around shaking every one else's hand. Odd but endearing. It wasn't the only odd thing but we're only talking about handshakes, right.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Anyone who offers me the "tennis player"....hand upwards and lock thumbs....get's a punch on the nose from me

Thankfully, in business throughout the world, I've only ever had the "normal" handshake but I fear the Tennis is coming some day

Try working for a big American company in Europe. For your EU colleagues / partners it's a standard firm 1-2 second hand clasp. When meeting US colleagues from your own company, it may well be the "tennis", but it could even be the "fist bump". The other day, one of them called me "brother".
Seriously... "brother"? I'd never met him until then.

Heeeey, brother, there’s an endless road to re-discover

 

[robjh]

I never got used to working in a French office where everyone comes in and goes around shaking every one else's hand. Odd but endearing. It wasn't the only odd thing but we're only talking about handshakes, right.

We got quite a bit of kissing in the Paris offices too.

 

[gbb]

The Eastern European community, at my workplace, all shake hands when they meet. As I am fluent in ten words of Polish (at least six of them are polite) they proffer a right hand to me as well.

Same here with the Polish at least.
Polish language is almost redundant here...the vast majority are now Lithuanian and increasingly Romanian, they tend not to handshake...at least outside their own circle perhaps.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Glad I've never been in a job where so much significance was attached to a handshake, sounds a bit of a nightmare.
I do hear the techies at work sometimes referring to server handshakes but I think that might be something else.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Interesting thread, I didn't realise you could play games with handshakes.