RL Anger

[Misadventure]

As a species, we are bad enough about neglect. Purposeful actions are another scale of nasty.

[Shebakoby]

@Arkandel because it's a clear sign of budding serial killers. If they don't catch them now, not long before they graduate to humans.

[Luna]

@Arkandel Because that's fucked up and disturbing. Even if you're not an animal lover, that's a sign of sick people.

[ThatGuyThere]

Jury duty on the week I already had scheduled off for vacation.
Got the summons literally the day after scheduling it off called the automated number to day and I do have to appear. All my plans of doing nothing foiled.

[Ganymede]

@ThatGuyThere

When they ask whether you can make an unbiased judgment based on the facts, just say no, and blame everything on Obama. You'll be fine.

[ThatGuyThere]

this is the third time I have gotten a summons. First the automated number said I didn't' need me.
Second time I had to show up went through the lawyers questioning but was not selected.
We will see how tomorrow goes.

[Wizz]

Someone I used to be close with -- and almost had something romantic with -- just revealed publicly on Fbook that she found out her piece of shit boyfriend cheated on her, again. This was a dude who stole money from our very small group of friends and regularly invited other pieces of shit over to our "parties" (seriously, like five of us) without permission, and we had been pretty sure at the time that they stole from us as well. I haven't seen or talked to her in a couple of months now because of some unrelated bullshit between her and a mutual friend I met her through. I wish I could reach out to her, but I can't be sure what my own motivations are for doing so and I feel like she's probably being swamped anyway by a core of desperate dudes who have followed her relationship a little too closely since I first met her. I don't want to be one of them.

I wish I knew what to do about feeling angry and confused, but ultimately more I just wish I could help.

[Olsson]

@Ganymede said:

When they ask whether you can make an unbiased judgment based on the facts, just say no, and blame everything on Obama. You'll be fine.

Honest question, how come people don't just say no to that to get out of it everytime? Or is there a system to check against it? Or just people actually wanting to do their civic duty.

[Coin]

@Wizz said:

Someone I used to be close with -- and almost had something romantic with -- just revealed publicly on Fbook that she found out her piece of shit boyfriend cheated on her, again. This was a dude who stole money from our very small group of friends and regularly invited other pieces of shit over to our "parties" (seriously, like five of us) without permission, and we had been pretty sure at the time that they stole from us as well. I haven't seen or talked to her in a couple of months now because of some unrelated bullshit between her and a mutual friend I met her through. I wish I could reach out to her, but I can't be sure what my own motivations are for doing so and I feel like she's probably being swamped anyway by a core of desperate dudes who have followed her relationship a little too closely since I first met her. I don't want to be one of them.

I wish I knew what to do about feeling angry and confused, but ultimately more I just wish I could help.

There is no good answer to this. I would just PM her with "if you need to talk, let me know" and leave it at that. It's not creepy, and it leaves the ball in her court so if she wants to talk and decides you're the one to talk to, the invitation's there. But you aren't, like, sitting down in a virtual couch too close to her wrapping your arm around her and going, "are you okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay?"

[Derp]

@Olsson said:

@Ganymede said:

When they ask whether you can make an unbiased judgment based on the facts, just say no, and blame everything on Obama. You'll be fine.

Honest question, how come people don't just say no to that to get out of it everytime? Or is there a system to check against it? Or just people actually wanting to do their civic duty.

At least here, they've gotten somewhat smarter about that and started asking a series of questions about the (newly revised) penal code, selecting a few at random to ask about what people think of someone who has been accused of X. Also because many people are not actually aware of how all this goes down, so they don't know to do that.

[Ganymede]

@Olsson said:

Honest question, how come people don't just say no to that to get out of it everytime? Or is there a system to check against it? Or just people actually wanting to do their civic duty.

In Ohio, you're required by law to appear. You can't duck out based on personal belief, and your testimony before the judge in voir dire must be truthful, lest you risk perjury. However, expressing an opinion -- such as a dissatisfaction with government and the law due to dissatisfaction with the President -- is protected speech, and will certainly inform the attorneys that you'll be a poor juror.

Generally, people like to serve on juries, I've found. Most don't try to duck out unless they have prior commitments, like vacations or medical appointments.

[Roz]

Yeah, you'll definitely get in trouble if you just -- don't appear. But it's NOT super hard to say things that will make you an unappealing juror to one side or the other. I actually really wanted to serve the last time I got called, but I think there was a combo of things like 1) I'm very good friends with a defense attorney who sometimes chats (in an appropriately allowable way without breaking confidentiality) about her cases to me, 2) it was a case involving domestic abuse and stalking and they ask things like "does anybody have personal or familial experience with this kind of thing" and I had to say yes, etc. And there went my Henry Fonda dreams.

[Misadventure]

I usually get out because it is a fiscal hardship. I've never had a summons happen when I was at a company that would pay for the time.

[HelloRaptor]

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

[silentsophia]

@Misadventure I got paid a lot less for jury duty, but it was worth it not to be on the phones at the call center.

[Ganymede]

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to fall asleep when people are yelling at each other.

[Coin]

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to fall asleep when people are yelling at each other.

You may be surprised how easy it is for some of us to fall asleep while people yell at each other.

[Ganymede]

@Coin said:

You may be surprised how easy it is for some of us to fall asleep while people yell at each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20knMq7_JZY

[EmmahSue]

Note how HR doesn't complain about how that jury summons happens to have hit the exact week his mother in law is in town.

ES

[Ganymede]

@EmmahSue said:

Note how HR doesn't complain about how that jury summons happens to have hit the exact week his mother in law is in town.

Coincidental magic is coincidental.