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Jury Duty
« on: November 03, 2003, 04:51:18 PM »
Haha! They thought they'd removed all internet access from this public computer, but I'm too smart for them.

So here I am at the court house doing Jury Duty, where I will likely be at least until Wednesday. I'll try to make sure we still get articles posted, and i'll do my best to keep up my 2000 words a day for NaNoWriMo, but we'll have to see. Just don't be surprised if I don't read or comment on anything for a while.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2003, 05:13:16 PM »
Can I put in a request that they setting for TW(i)G get posted soon? I mean, I submitted it a week and a half ago, and you have it still sitting around. People wanna see it.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2003, 06:04:50 PM »
Don't do it! Don't do anything that will distract us from NaNoWriMo!

Okay, kidding. Hey, Fell, when you get out of jail, do you want to tell us how you bi-passed their internet-blocking system?
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2003, 07:29:25 PM »
I bypassed it by knowing how to use Windows. Fiendish, don't you think?

And regarding Twig, quit your whining. It should be up tomorrow.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2003, 08:43:09 PM »
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2003, 08:58:37 PM »
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2003, 01:53:15 AM »
It was my immediate, gut reaction to "quit your whining."  
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2003, 02:41:35 AM »
ya just think of it as a temp Job.  You are getting paid for your time.  That way if you wife ever mentions anything about not finding a job you can just say: "Hey I did work for the state for a few days."
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2003, 03:07:03 PM »
Juries only get paid in long-term cases, which this is not.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2003, 03:30:26 PM »
Wait a sec--they don't pay you?  How many days are you expected to be out of work?  For a person who depends on every paycheck, even a few days could be catastrophic.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2003, 03:50:57 PM »
I think its required by law for the company to foot the bill for employees on short term jury-duty detail.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2003, 08:25:10 PM »
don't know about Utah, but when my bike was stolen in Vegas, (and pres told us we should press charges) I went to court twice and testified, spent a total of like 4 hours of P-days in court, and got compensated by the gov't for it. Ok, no, it's not jury duty, but it was a small case and very little of my day. Someone should be paying you.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2003, 11:52:46 AM »
"Welcome to [Utah] gentlemen."
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2003, 06:59:20 PM »
As it turns out, we are getting compensated. It's not much, but given that I was expecting nothing it's plenty. The trial ended today, by the way, so now I'm free again.
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Re: Jury Duty
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2003, 10:07:53 PM »
I was going to make a remark like: Well at least Utah doesn't spend money it doesn't like some states [meaning California].

I'm glad you got some compensation Fell.
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