u/scattingcougar

I live at 10 Partridge Rd

I’m not usually into this but I visited Amsterdam on holiday and smoked some weed while I was there.

I may (hopefully) have an interview for a role at Siemens Energy in the UK. Am I likely to get tested for an office based role?

As I said I don’t do this regularly! I’ve only done it legally whilst on holiday where it’s allowed. I would never go to work under the influence of anything, legal or illegal.

I’m in England now but this happened in Germany. I had my own travel insurance that I took out in England.

I was go karting in Hamburg in a group. We were led by an instructor and drove on public roads (legally). Unfortunately I went into the back of one of my friends and caused some damage to mine and his karts. No injuries, just some minor damage to the karts.

When we finished, the instructors gave a me a breakdown of damages which they claimed added up to ~€650 but said, since I’d paid for their insurance, I just had to pay €500 to cover the excess.

We each had to pay €20 for insurance before we started but didn’t see any details of the policy.

I paid the €500 reluctantly as they had held all of our IDs while we were out and I didn’t want to risk them getting police involved. I think it’s fair enough for me to pay for damages but I thought €500 was a pretty high excess.

I’m kicking myself for not probing their insurance policy at the time.

Does this sound at all suspicious to anyone?

I will be getting in touch with them now that I’m home to find out about their insurance policy. If they’ve lied about the excess, is there anything I can do?

I don’t really want to do a chargeback on the transaction unless I have to as I wouldn’t want any trouble getting back into Germany in the future.

Is it worth speaking to my travel insurance provider about this?