![]() When I was a teenager a new mall opened near home and the guy they hired to greet the little ones before Christmas had some issues. This isn’t the first time the old elf is in short supply. ![]() He doesn’t overpromise but will listen to all requests. Instead, he’s calm and gentle so as not to frighten the kids. I learned that Santa Claus doesn’t give off boisterous “Ho-ho-ho’s”. I attended the program as I was doing a story on the subject for a TV station at which I worked at the time. I graduated from Santa school in the late 1990s but can’t remember if I saved the certificate. It requires patience and an ability to deal with a myriad of personalities. Also, during the lockdown era, there were very few new Kringles being trained and many of the older folks who did the work in the past have themselves passed.īeing Santa requires good people skills. A story from the Washington Post outlines there are several factors at work here.
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