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I hate my life sometimes...	by shadowsystems	2005-01-20 00:20:56
Had Jury Duty for the first time in my life. What a joke. Not a "funny ha-ha" kind of joke, but a "OMG, WTF has happened to our Government?" kind of sick, twisted, messed up joke... I sat through one pre-trial Jury-Selection Round (JSR) and got to listen to the lawyers asking all sorts of questions that had NOTHING to do with ANY aspect of the case. Guy on trial with 14 counts of [NON-FYOS] his own two sons, and the laywers are asking questions like "Do you think our President has done a good job with Social Services Reform?" (Blink) WTF? What does my opinion on our President have to do with this guy being accused of [NON-FYOS] his children fourteen times? NOTHING -Slaps a Lawyer- How about you STFU and get back to business?! It's ok, since I was dismissed from that JSR anyway. (They didn't like the fact that I advocated the Death Penalty for child [NON-FYOS]. [NON-FYOS] a child? Yeah, you're a waste of oxygen & the World will be a MUCH better place without your worthless butt taking up space.) Go back to the Jury Waiting Room (JWR), and re-register for another JSR. They tell me that it's time for lunch, so I'm free to go eat, but to be back by a certain time. Ok, not a problem. I go upstairs to the cafeteria, & get myself some lunch... Read my book (The Illuminati trilogy, single tome, paperback ed.) until it's time to go back to the JWR... Get assigned to another JSR, and sit in the courtroom for FOUR HOURS listening to the two lawyers grilling ONE MAN about his screwed up "Guilty until proven innocent" POV... Blink WTF? It's the other way around, you dumb [NON-FYOS]! $Diety help YOU if you're ever the one to end up on the Defendant's Stand! See how well YOU would like being presumed guilty until / unless you can prove your innocence! DAMN Four... [NON-FYOS]... hours... The same questions, re-worded ad nauseum, asked ad infinitum... We finally broke for the day at 4:45pm. The Judge sent everyone home with instructions to come back at 8:30am this morning, and I was OH so glad to get the hell out of there... Granted, I had my book, my PDA (for MP3's, reading e-Texts, doodling in Notes, etc), and a bottle of Diet Pepsi, but I was SO D[NON-FYOS]D BORED that I was, literally, writing "bored bored bored bored bored bored" on my PDA until I was afraid I'd run the batteries dry... Got there this morning, book in hand, & read until they opened the doors. Sit down, and we waste the first half of the day questioning everyone about every worthless bit of minutia about their lives, until I seriously wondered if they were going to have everyone group hug & start singing "Kumbaya" (sp?).... We break for lunch around 11:30am. I go get a sandwhich from this little "Roach Coach" catering truck thingy, and spend $7 on a sandwhich & tiny little tub of potato salad. Now, this sandwhich is just like any your mom might have made for you - small, thin, & more salad than meat. I actually had to take it apart to verify that there WAS meat on it, because I couldn't tell from looking at the center cut that there was anything besides the lettuce & tomato there... (Sighs) I get back to the hall outside the JSR room, and sit down to read some more... They've told us to be back NLT 1:30pm, and it's now a few minutes after 12pm, so I've got PLENTY of time to read my book... More than I thought, cause they didn't open the doors until nearly TWO PM... (Sighs) I sit in the "potential" area, listening to them dismiss potential juror after juror; asking questions about everything & anything; and bored out of my butt... You can't read while in court. Can't listen to music (not even through headphones). Cell phones & pagers must be turned OFF, not just silent, but off while in the Court room. My PDA got a dirty look until I told them that it wasn't gonna make noise. (Not TECHNICALLY a lie, since I have it on [MUTE] 99.99% of it's life.) Anyway, they FINALLY call me into the Jury Box around 4pm, ask me like TWO questions, and promptly dismiss me with no further questions. blink I sat here for effectively TWO DAYS, and now you're NOT going to need me? (Insert Primal Scream here) Ok, FINE. I go back downstairs to the JWR, re-register with the receptionist for any other JSR's that need people, and she takes nearly ten minutes before realizing what time it is (4:25pm), punching my Jury badge, and handing me my receipt for having spent my days in Court doing my civic duty... (Confused blink) "What, I can go home now?" Yes, Sir. You're done. If they don't use you after two days, we can't keep you. "Have I completed my Jury Duty, or can I be summoned again within the year?" You can be summoned, but it's highly unlikely. (I know my luck - I WILL be re-summoned.) "Ok, thank you. Have a nice day, M'am." I pretend to tip my hat, and leave. So... * I've wasted two days from my job & accomplished nothing... * Sat on my butt & listened to lawyers bicker n ask questions that had little to nothing to do with the pending cases... * Will only get paid $15 ...that's fifteen total... for my time away from work... Work doesn't pay you for Jury Duty time, so the 16 hours of work I would have gotten paid for is SOMEHOW supposed to be countered by the fifteen dollars the Court will pay me for my time? I nearly make $15 AN HOUR! You just cost me $200 out of my [NON-FYOS]ing paycheque!!! (Insert second Primal Scream here) * I have to go back to work tomorrow, & try and catch up on all the work I KNOW didn't get done in my absence, because the only OTHER person in my department who did what I do, changed departments the day I left for jury duty... Thus leaving NO ONE covering the order-taking operations portion of the office... * Which means it either didn't get done at all (thus leaving with sixteen hours of work to catch up on in a single shift, plus all the work that happens IN that shift), or by some miracle it DID get done, but I'll have to double-check it all to make sure it got done RIGHT... (If it didn't, I get to fix all the goof-up's. NOT that they'd be the person's fault who was TRYING to help mind you, but since they're NOT familiar with what I do, the liklihood of them managing to get it done, much less done RIGHT, is slim to nearly non-exsistant...) My bills are killing me. And now that I've done my Civic Duty, my bills will hurt even more. I may have to petition HR for SOME form of compensation - I can't afford to lose all that money from my paycheque - there's no way I'll make the mortgage payment if I'm $200 short... <8-( (Insert Multiple Primal Screams of [NON-FYOS] content here...)
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