When you want to miss the party

The other day Jean wrote about the different ways to put foreign holidays on your calendar. That’s great advice, and I’ve already subscribed to the calendars for the countries I deal with most frequently.
Sometimes, though, that’s not enough. It’s particularly important to communicate with your colleagues, wherever they are, about local mores and customs, because those will also impact the holiday schedule. For example, here in Philadelphia, our “regional” holidays pretty much match the usual US holidays, so no great difficulty there. If you try to do business with businesses further north and west in Pennsylvania on the first day …read more