Jury Duty
This week, my boss mentioned he would get crazy busy in the following weeks, as NIH proposal due, an incoming conference and a whole week of Jury Duty. Though my boss is already 70 years old, this seems the first time that he has got the summon call since he was joking that he didn’t know if he didn’t go, whether he would be brought by force.
Believe it or not, I received this same kind of call years ago, which just sounds ridiculous to me. As I remember, the terms on the summon letter are very cruel to the people who are not going to take the reponsibility. But you can imagine, I would never attend a court for such a thing and what’s more, it would take a week! So what I did is, replying the mail by claiming that I have a disability — (with a note: unable to understand English:p)
I still feel weird now having such kind of duty. And, I am just alien resident and there are so many Americans out there. But I was picked up then, why not by lottery:)?
OHeHLium liang~ » Just some complaint on 05 Jun 2006 at 3:33 pm
[...] Right now, it’s summer vacation time again and my boss is going to take off 6-8 weeks since July. But there will be little time for my boss this month, as you know, the Jury Duty he has (fortunately, it is postponed till Wed. so I could meet my boss today), and there will be a conference. So it seems we couldn’t get the paper done again. And I need to do a little more work on it……. [...]