🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 05:53:30 GMT, "Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.com> wrote:

>-:
>-:"Scott Helms" <shelms1@charter.net> wrote in message
>-:news:756bd789.0208092005.77260e85@posting.google.com...
>-:> deja_bhoot2000@yahoo.com (Bhoot Nath) wrote in message
>-:news:<309e7c98.0208091319.2baa4b6b@posting.google.com>...
>-:> > 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.
>-:
>-:
>-:
On the other hand, you are NOT a US citizen, so there!
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