I am in that boat now, they have canceled jury duty twice on me now, and now, then I could have handled missing a couple days, but right now I can not, and they give a shit less, close the business is all they say, WTF kind of attitude is that? , Today I’m going to tell them, they can call my banker and tell them why I can not make this month’s payments, and I am going to send them a bill for the show that I have already paid to attend, I have coming up this week, which will be missed and is my last opportunity to make a decent chunk of cash for the year. I have already let my last help go early this year, I guess it is time to go on welfare!!

For many people, jury duty means missing work, or for students, school. And neither of those things are valid excuses to get out of jury duty. The pay for jury duty is abysmal; it never comes close to matching an individual’s salary, so bills aren’t paid, food cannot be purchased, and sometimes rent is late depending on the duration of the trial. And if you’re a student — forget it. It doesn’t matter that you paid for that entire semester already; you get to fail and redo the entire semester (and YOU get to pay for it) because some guy stole a car on the other side of the state.

And if you don’t have a car, you get to take the bus there. Because even inadequate transportation isn’t an excuse. Of course, the courthouse isn’t willing to provide anything to get you there, but it’s still not an excuse. You just have to find a way. Somehow. Or else you’re fined thousands of dollars for not showing up.

So please understand: Our dislike for this process has nothing to do with our lack of patriotism, or our inability “to act like adults”. Most of us just have bills to pay, or other obligations entirely. You’re kind of oversimplifying the issue. People aren’t “big fat babies” when they just want to get out of court and return to work so they can pay their rent.

That said, they could easily remedy the whole situation by only selecting the unemployed. These people don’t even have jobs to attend, and they’ll get paid for showing up. How awesome is that? Exceptions could be made for people who have job interviews coming up, and that would be that.

Being forced to do a job you do not wish to do is slavery. You are likely to lose a lot of money due to loss of earnings because they do not pay enough to cover salery so mortgages, cars, debt payments etc could all go bye bye getitng you in more debt, having bailiffs round, losing your house, car etc.

You have got to find carers for your ill relatives if you care for them, you have to find child minderes for possibly 10 hours or more a day. How can you vet all the child minders you will need to make sure they are safe for you to leave your kids with. How do you ever recover from the financial strain? If you have your own business then you may have to say goodbye to that and spend the rest of your life paying off the loan you took out to start it.

With all the stresses above, and im only scatching the surface, how can you have a clear head to give a fair trial to the defendands if you are constantly worrying and trying to figure out how the hell you are going to live and put food on the table for your children if you can even put a roof over their heads?

A statement from one Californian holds true for all californians.

That’s why they no longer have elections and instead merely hand out free government weed and cheese on election day.