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toripearson_19 t1_jbppq5h wrote

Reply to comment by timesuck in Jury Duty - Grand Jury by pmizzle88

This! My fiance got $12 for having to be at the courthouse 8 hours. It's ridiculous they think it's ok to make someone miss a day of work pay to go sit at the courthouse all day. He didn't even serve on a jury. They just kept him there in case they needed an extra person.

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Jupichan t1_jbrpn94 wrote

I wound up losing a ton of money the time I went. Caught a bad case of the flu from the lady sitting next to me. Missed not only that day of work, but five more days after that.

But of course those five days were after I went to work for a day, because it was still incubating, and therefore I was "not sick yet."

So I took out the entire prepared foods department of a Market District.

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toripearson_19 t1_jbrqqfc wrote

My fiance actually got covid there! At least we're pretty sure. Then I caught it from him and had to miss work. And I'm a self-employed dog walker, so I don't get PTO or anything.

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just_an_ordinary_guy t1_jbru9bu wrote

And what it encourages is people saying shit they don't necessarily believe to try and get off the jury. Some folks have a job that will pay them their normal wages or a difference between what the court pays and their normal wages if they have jury duty, but it's not a legal requirement. So what you logically wind up with is pressure towards more well off people being on juries.

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