I just found out the biggest load of BULL I've seen in a LONG time. Is this more proof of how much of a stupid state CA is becoming or do other states have this problem too?

So, for the 1st time in 10 years I am summoned for Jury Duty. Currently I am a contract employee and there are 10 months left in my contract. As a contractor I am hourly and get no vacation time. I am also NOT PROTECTED by the CA law that states I cannot lose my job for Jury Duty, so I actually can lose my contract if I am required to sit on Jury Duty! So worst case I lose my contract, best case I lose several days pay! I explained all of this to my county with documentation backed up by my contract employer stating these facts. The county doesn't care - they gave me a 3 month postponement but told me that in 3 months I MUST appear or I can be arrested. So in 3 months my choices are:

1. Several days lost wages
2. Loss of my contract
3. Arrest

What am I supposed to do? This is absolutely ridiclous! I know some counties around me would be more lenient but not mine.

So, to make it even better, my wife is an hourly regular employee who has ALSO been summoned in the same county! She cannot lose her job but her employer is not required to pay her (and has made clear they will not!). So the same response from the county applies to her. So 3 months from now we are both going to lose about a week of work, seriously hurting our finances!

How can this possibly be allowed? Is this a **** rule in my state only or have others of you had this issue too? It's ridiculous that I have to either supplement our income that month or dip way into our savings, which exists for emergencies! Sitting around for a week waiting to be selected for trial is hardly an emergency!

 

As a proud member of the NRA I have found that wearing my hat to court
gets me shuffled right back out.

 

Yeah I got a summons the other day. I'm self employed and the only worker besides my wife who answers the phone and takes care of the 2 kids. Gonna get me a hat that says 'Kill em All'

 

Hmmm, I'm a pretty bug guy, maybe an NRA T-shirt, put my earings back in, get a fake nose ring... could work! Problem is that we still have to show up for at least that first day, resulting in a los of pay. I also complained that they hit us both at the same time and they basically said "Too bad".

 

There you go! Find a way to become eliminated.
May I suggest that a T-Shirt with a large marijuana leaf on it might not be as effective in California as it would be elsewhere...

Dressing as an outlaw biker might work,
!<dressing as if you were gay would likely guarantee that you were there all week>!

Jerry Springer T-Shirt? You're stayin'...

Skin Head Buzz job on your hair, and temporary tats - OUT YOU GO!

There must be fifty ways to be rated "Objectionable" for jury duty!!!

 

I don't know of anyone who is not burdened by jury duty.

 

Neither do I but how many can say that the county is forcing both household wage earners to lose their pay at the same time? And the county is aware of this...

 

wear a shirt with an american flag and a big red "X" over it, or a shirt that says "Anarchy in America", you know something that totally demoralizes our government they will totally disapprove of. Or you can sleep in court sessions. walk in a pair of cut-off shorts, that aren't finger-tip length, a trucker hat, and a wife-beater shirt with chew-spit stains all over it, they wont want you there.

 

This is another way out. State that the officers are always correct in your eyes and that the person would not of been arrested if they were not guilty and NOTHING is going to change your mind..

NRA or Gun Hat and if you have tatoo's let them be seen

 

MrKnight,

Next time this happens.

Write them back a dyslexic letter in crayon ,about people who commit murder should be sent to the electric chair or something.
People who commit theft should have their hands cut off,etc.

 

Mil1ion, that was the first laugh I had today! Just visualizing how that letter would look and the reaction of the person reading it

 

There is never a convenient time to have jury duty, unless you are unemployed.

 

The more I hear about CA the more I appreciate Massachusetts. Thanks for proving to me that I live in the second most screwed up state in the country.

In MA when you get called for jury duty they make you serve "one day, one trial" which means that if they don't put you on a jury the day you report, you are done for two years. Very few trials last more than a day or two. Plus we can defer for one year, no questions asked and even ask for a different courthouse within the county.

I know this sounds extreme but is there any way you could "move" out of your county. Use someone else's address long enough to get out of the jury duty and then "move" back. That worked here for someone I know .

 

Wear a Ralph Nader or Ross Perot for Pres. T shirt.
Or one that says "Arnold Governator for President"
Not trying to be political here, just trying to help you keep your job.

 

yeah...that stinks. My old man is retired and aside from his projects around the house, gets a little bored. His name is the same as mine as well (minus the middle initial)...so when the letter comes, he normally takes it for me so I can work. I don't think I'd last though....I'd figure something out. And the NRA thing? Priceless.