Perhaps you attend some Human Resources conferences each year, or your company encourages employees to attend other meetings for professionals. Well, here’s an annual gathering for a very specialized — and special — job.
Nearly 140 people attended the annual World Santa Claus Congress at a park north of Copenhagen. Most attendees were from Scandinavia, but they came from all over the world including Russia, Japan and the United States.
These jobs aren’t for couch potatoes. One of the activities was an obstacle course where the Kris Kringles had to race past a sleigh and up a small hill built of ice before climbing down a fake chimney, according to wire service reports.
They also participated in the somewhat less strenuous “yula-hoop” twirl.
Attendees could also participate in tongue-in-cheek seminars about the 21st century challenges facing their vocation, such as, “How do we get into people’s homes when there are no chmineys on the houses to climb down?”
The Santa Congress has grown from just a local event when it was first held in 1957.
