What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Exhuminator]

Smile: Got called in for jury duty, showed up, waited half an hour past when the trial was supposed to start and the judge comes down to let us know the defendant decided to plea guilty as charged

That was exactly what happened to me last time I got jury duty.

And I was glad. Let me explain why.

I don't know about other states, but in Georgia your employer is not required to pay your salary for days you miss due to jury duty. Instead the state of Georgia reimburses the juror with some paltry sum of something like $35 per day jury duty pay. Okay, that's nice, but $35 isn't anywhere near what I make a day at my actual job. Meanwhile my employer made it abundantly clear they wouldn't pay for days I missed for jury duty. So it's either take a temporary pay cut or find yourself in contempt of court. So yeah, no jury duty for me thanks.

[MrPopo]

Smile: Got called in for jury duty, showed up, waited half an hour past when the trial was supposed to start and the judge comes down to let us know the defendant decided to plea guilty as charged

That was exactly what happened to me last time I got jury duty.

And I was glad. Let me explain why.

I don't know about other states, but in Georgia your employer is not required to pay your salary for days you miss due to jury duty. Instead the state of Georgia reimburses the juror with some paltry sum of something like $35 per day jury duty pay. Okay, that's nice, but $35 isn't anywhere near what I make a day at my actual job. Meanwhile my employer made it abundantly clear they wouldn't pay for days I missed for jury duty. So it's either take a temporary pay cut or find yourself in contempt of court. So yeah, no jury duty for me thanks.

Well, in Washington employers have no obligation to pay, they just can't fire you while you serve, and the court pays $10 a day (which apparently is the same rate it was 17 years ago, if not longer). My employer still pays me while I'm out, so I didn't have the financial thing hanging over my head like you did.

That's too bad. I served on a jury last summer, and I really enjoyed it. (I got to announce the verdict and everything!)

I am not surprised that you ended up foreman. I'm picturing you doing that thing the smart kid in the class does when he knows the answer but the teacher won't call on him when they asked for a foreman.

[prfsnl_gmr]

That's too bad. I served on a jury last summer, and I really enjoyed it. (I got to announce the verdict and everything!)

I am not surprised that you ended up foreman. I'm picturing you doing that thing the smart kid in the class does when he knows the answer but the teacher won't call on him when they asked for a foreman.

That is basically correct. When we went back for the deliberations, the other 11 jurors basically announced that I would be foreman, and we took it from there. (I protested a bit, but apparently, no one else wanted the job.)

[fastbilly1]

Smile: Got called in for jury duty, showed up, waited half an hour past when the trial was supposed to start and the judge comes down to let us know the defendant decided to plea guilty as charged

That was exactly what happened to me last time I got jury duty.

And I was glad. Let me explain why.

I don't know about other states, but in Georgia your employer is not required to pay your salary for days you miss due to jury duty. Instead the state of Georgia reimburses the juror with some paltry sum of something like $35 per day jury duty pay. Okay, that's nice, but $35 isn't anywhere near what I make a day at my actual job. Meanwhile my employer made it abundantly clear they wouldn't pay for days I missed for jury duty. So it's either take a temporary pay cut or find yourself in contempt of court. So yeah, no jury duty for me thanks.

My company works the sameway, thats why I loved getting jury duty when I lived in Atlanta. Go hang out in Decatur for a day, get an expensive free lunch (there was a banging Indian restaurant near there), and read most of a book. Everytime but one I was dismissed before noon, sadly that one time I was there until almost 2100 thanks to a storm. I did get one good story out of it, when we were in the first section of questions for becoming a juror and they asked the "have you or anyone you know be a victim" and the week before a friend of mine had a break in while he was in bed. They asked me what happened and I told them that the guy breaking in just picked the wrong house and should have brought a bigger gun, since his 9mm met two riot beanbags at sub 10ft range. The everyone laughed and the Judge reminded me that I was under oath.

Sadly, where I live now the pool is a month, marked every week.

[mjmjr25]

FWIW and to counter some of the stories from today; I proposed to my wife the night I met her - December 2000. We were married in October 2001. We planned each of our children and had them in consecutive years beginning in 2003. We've been married 14 years. She had never been with a man prior to when we met.

[prfsnl_gmr]

My wife had never been with a man like me before we met. That'd be true for just about anyone, however.

[mjmjr25]

My 12yo just called, sobbing. A fox just took one of our girls; Star. I feel violently angry right now. It'll pass, i'm sure, but i'm glad i'm not home right now or i'd be all Prince Harry Fox Hunter.

[Luke]

FWIW and to counter some of the stories from today; I proposed to my wife the night I met her - December 2000. We were married in October 2001. We planned each of our children and had them in consecutive years beginning in 2003. We've been married 14 years. She had never been with a man prior to when we met.

[Omerta]

My 12yo just called, sobbing. A fox just took one of our girls; Star. I feel violently angry right now. It'll pass, i'm sure, but i'm glad i'm not home right now or i'd be all Prince Harry Fox Hunter.

This ol' boy came through and took out every one of my chickens one night. He scared himself away by tipping over the heat lamp and starting the coop on fire.

Then he has the balls to come back the next day to set up a new home by my kids' swing set.

I won that round.

[bmoc]

Rare Replay arrived today!

6.2 GB update on day 1 for old games?!?!