Why Jury Duty Stinks, a reflection.

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MegaDrive20XX

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Okay, many of our younger members of EGA. I'm going to leave you with some Adult Wisdom. JURY DUTY SUCKS MORE THAN MAYO COVERED CANDY, ok?

You are given an adorable harmless paper. Told to report at a certain time. However, if you have a career or college to attend to. You're going to have to stop everything you are doing, to appease this summons.

So you will lose the following: Money from your Job, Time, Gas in your car, sleep, and/or important class time if you're in college.

You're probably wondering, "Yet Mega, didn't you get to hear the trial?"

Yes I did, but I lost over $130 from the lack of work by being stuck in a court room. Yet gained $40 for doing my service as a juror. FTL. Simply, bad math. Sure it would be cool if I had the free time to enjoy this, but as each hour ticked, I wanted to cry, because my money was floating away.

No Money= No Cool Video Games and Bills being paid on time. Remember my young friends.

Most disturbing part about this court house...the door knobs on each district court room...were TIKI GODS...yes Hawaiian TIKI GODS...I think someone had way too many Maui Wowies when designing the place...majestic...regal....marble floor finish....but TIKI GODS for Door Knobs? ooookay :lol
 
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You didn't postpone it until school was done or until you had days off?

Does your job not pay for jury duty?

Normally I would say that sucks, but when you get stuck in a jury FOR SIX WEEKS!! (like me) it's hard for me to be sympathetic. But I do feel your pain.
 
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Oh I did, but the first day, they told us to come back....I show up at 815am...and they told me to come back at 130pm after an hour.

My job? pfft, stingy as heck.

You Sympathetic? Nahhhhhh :lol Not you! heaven's no!

Six Weeks? What's your story?
 
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In my company, if I get stuck in jury duty, I get paid my normal salary provided I hand over the jury checks. Which to me is well worth it. It doesn't matter if it's two days or three months.

One of the best ways to get out of jury duty is to watch the news religiously. They will always boot someone who has already developed an opinion.

One buddy of mine went to jury duty with a shirt that read, "The amount of justice you recieve is based on how much you are willing to pay." It was a shirt from his sister's law firm. He didn't even have time to warm the seat.
 
Wild....one shirt makes a different...and all I was gonna wear was a t-shirt that reads "I got a pocket rocket"...sadly it didn't work...but I was getting hit on :(
 
That sucks man. My grandma had jury duty for a pretty serious case here not too long ago. Some girl's ex-boyfriend went into her school and stabbed her..then walked away like nothing happened. He was found guilty.
 
In my state they only pay $12.50 a day for your Jury duty services. It is almost an insult. Some work places will compensate you, some will not. Everytime that I have served I have lost money.
I have served on Federal Jury Duty before. You get stuck with that for six months. you do get paid better, $60.00 a day. ::)
 
Re: Why Jury Duty Stinks, a reflection of my miserable 2 days.

MegaDrive20XX said:
You Sympathetic? Nahhhhhh :lol Not you! heaven's no!
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Oh come on! I can be. :(

Six Weeks? What's your story?
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Was chosen to be an alternate for a trial. It lasted six weeks because the lawyers were going back in forth, actually it was interesting for a little while because both were so good. A lot of witnesses and evidence. But still it takes such a toll on you, all the security checks (I was in a Los Angeles courtroom where a lot high profile trials happen so there was a lot of it), having to be there on time everyday (at least at work it excused every now and then), and parking 5 blocks away from the court room during the summer was not cool either. In the end it was mistrial, A FRIGGIN MISTRIAL!!!! It felt like such a waste.
 
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CreepinDeth said:
Was chosen to be an alternate for a trial. It lasted six weeks because the lawyers were going back in forth, actually it was interesting for a little while because both were so good. A lot of witnesses and evidence. But still it takes such a toll on you, all the security checks (I was in a Los Angeles courtroom where a lot high profile trials happen so there was a lot of it), having to be there on time everyday (at least at work it excused every now and then), and parking 5 blocks away from the court room during the summer was not cool either. In the end it was mistrial, A FRIGGIN MISTRIAL!!!! It felt like such a waste.
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Bummer! And definitely a waste of your time.
 
I get out of jury duty by showing up wearing a wizard costume, and will only swear in on a copy of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung"
 
MegaDrive20XX said:
Okay, many of our younger members of EGA. I'm going to leave you with some Adult Wisdom. JURY DUTY SUCKS MORE THAN MAYO COVERED CANDY, ok?

You are given an adorable harmless paper. Told to report at a certain time. However, if you have a career or college to attend to. You're going to have to stop everything you are doing, to appease this summons.

So you will lose the following: Money from your Job, Time, Gas in your car, sleep, and/or important class time if you're in college.

You're probably wondering, "Yet Mega, didn't you get to hear the trial?"

Yes I did, but I lost over $130 from the lack of work by being stuck in a court room. Yet gained $40 for doing my service as a juror. FTL. Simply, bad math. Sure it would be cool if I had the free time to enjoy this, but as each hour ticked, I wanted to cry, because my money was floating away.

No Money= No Cool Video Games and Bills being paid on time. Remember my young friends.

Most disturbing part about this court house...the door knobs on each district court room...were TIKI GODS...yes Hawaiian TIKI GODS...I think someone had way too many Maui Wowies when designing the place...majestic...regal....marble floor finish....but TIKI GODS for Door Knobs? ooookay :lol
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You did a great job of writing that out. It was extremely funny in a very sad sort of way.


Sorry you got stuck with jury duty. Ugh. I hope I never have to do that. :/ *crosses her finger*
 
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