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Aug 4, 2022
10:13:37am
macdizzle All-American
Americans are sometimes really dumb when they travel foreign.
I was fortunate enough to travel internationally a lot for work when I was with my last company. Traveled to China, Japan, Singapore, all over Europe (England, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, etc.)

Our travel coordinator at work would send the same email to me every time I traveled just reiterating that we don't have the same Constitutional guarantees in those nations that we do over here. Bottom line is don't engage in risky activity in those nations or you're at risk of being arrested and there's very little the US or the company can do to help in some of those countries. We had a sales leader get drunk in the airport in Beijing and cause a scene. They detained him and wouldn't let him come home. Spent a few days in a Chinese detention center/jail thing before he was able to make it out.

I had a guy on my team have a burst appendix while in Germany. They operated on him there, but then the German docs wouldn't let him travel for two weeks. Had to spend two weeks in a German hospital bed and then a German hotel while he was getting better.

Bottom line: don't be an idiot or have a medical emergency 😉 when you go abroad.
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