🚀 go-pugleaf

"Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message
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> deja_bhoot2000@yahoo.com (Bhoot Nath) wrote in message
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> > I live in the southern most part of Alameda County in the SF Bay Area,
and
> > today I received a Jury Summons for jury duty in OAKLAND.
> >
> > Here are the problems:
> >
> > 1. My wife and I have an infant, and we have only 1 car. Wife commutes
to
> > the silicon valley. I bike to my job in the same town we live in. No
local
> > bus service. The only way to go got jury duty will be to (a) take a cab;
or
> > (b) a cab to Bart, and Bart to Oakland, and then walk to courthouse.
> >
> > 2. I am a so called exempt employee at work (i.e., no overtime etc).
> > While employer will give time off for Jury Duty, when I get back, I
would
> > have to finish all the accumulated work (plus more, as people not
present
> > in meetings always get assigned extra work!). And there will not be any
> > overtime or anything.
> >
> > 3. Oakland is basically a place to be avoided: most areas are filthy,
> > dirty, stink; drug dealing and shooting is rampant. They have had about
> > 100 murders already this year.
> >
> > Are these valid reasons to get excused?
> >
> > And why is the compensation so ridiculous: 15 cents a mile ONE WAY ONLY,
> > and ZERO for the first day, $15 for additional days. So, 5 days of jury
> > service means $60 for 40 hours -- $1.50/hour, less than 1/5 of the
> > California MINIMUM wage! This in a CAPITALIST country ... legislators
pay
> > themselves 100 times that amount!!
> >
> > Bhoot
>
> Tell them you moved away and are no longer a resident of Oakland.  And
> do cancel your voter registration there, for Pete's sake.

Counselling someone to commit a felony, I see. You are one fine citizen.