Kissing manager on cheek

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Is it normal?
Seen it some places and it's creepy when there's a middle age man and girls in 20s no matter how jolly he is
Also seen middle age line manager cheek kiss director who was 29 on Christmas and similar occasions

Normal is a relative concept.

Doesn't ever happen where I work (NHS)

It's normal in some environments and workplaces. If it's a kiss on the cheek, and none of the women are cringing or trying to push him off, it's pointless to speculate what nefarious thoughts he might be having - or not.

What prompted you to ask?

No, never had this. Always worked in a hands off office environment.

Christmas parties can be a bit of a grey area after a few drinks and people take advantage.

Oh it would depend on where I am…. My team are operational and I’m office based so I don’t see them in person very often. If I see them in the office they wouldn’t and if I see them at a pub ( for the odd office drinks) they would. I’m fine with it… I’m older than many of them.

Just to clarify, this is the ladies kissing the man on the cheek.
One 23f is kissing him last thing on an evening as the sales manager 50m comes in once a quarter as if she is his daughter
And the Christmas kiss is not a party,. it's last thing before breaking up for Christmas at noon. My line manager 43f peck on boss's cheek 29m

Both are female manager

Normal in my workplace, I work with a lot of Europeans though.

It was normal with one of my managers. He was probably 5-10yrs older. South African, so it might be a cultural thing, but he did it with all the female members of the team. With the men, handshakes and clapping on shoulder/back was common.

Never had it with any British manager though

I worked in quite a kissy environment (school), but it was only ever women kissing women, men didn't get involved either as the giver or the recipient.

I get a hug from my manager if ive not seen her for a couple of weeks. Lots of hugs at the team meeting monthly. Work trips away sharing rooms is normal. No kissing though.

And thinking about it, the blokes don't get involved with any physical contact.

Depends on team culture.

Some of us hug and kiss at work, we are hybrid, rail industry, we're either in the office, on site or wfh so when we meet up some of us hug or kiss.
I hugged a few colleagues yesterday, male and female, I also hugged and kissed an older male colleague, he hugged and kissed me back (we're close as we work on projects together).
We're a tight team and support each other professionally and personally.
I'm late 50's but we have a range of ages, I'm having a female colleague (20's) sleep over at my house as we're going on a team night out next month.

Only if they would do it to either sex.

Depends on the context. Our Managing Director would never hug or kiss me on the cheek at work, but he did when I dropped off a gift from the team at his home when he was on medical leave (not in a sleazy way because it was in private, just to be clear, his wife was standing right there).

An older colleague who's now mostly retired but still pops into the office on a consultancy basis has always been a kiss on both cheeks type, that's just his way.

Where we live is very European influenced in general so greetings with a hug or a kiss are common across the board and from both sexes.