The big Jury Duty payoff
May. 30th, 2007 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI got my check for Jury Duty in the mail the other day. Including mileage, my grand total was a whopping:
I'm glad to see that Montgomery County values my time at fair market rates. :-P
$12.74
I'm glad to see that Montgomery County values my time at fair market rates. :-P
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 08:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 10:15 pm (UTC)It didn't even make up for the amount of gas wasted. Not even with 1998 prices. :P
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 11:20 pm (UTC)Wait, you live in Germany and you drove...
I live in the USA and I took public transportation...
That's a bit backwards. o.O
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 11:23 pm (UTC)That's the fun with drafts - you get to see remote places you've never been before and you'll never get there ever again in your life.
(With the US Army, it's just 'Meet foreign people and shoot them'.)
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 10:59 pm (UTC)This was for 5 days of service.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 11:52 pm (UTC)- Where do you live that they pay that much for jury duty?! That's orders magnitude more than they pay here in Dade County, FL, and...
- Who did your LJ user icon? That's absolutely beyond adorable.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 12:29 am (UTC)The breakdown is as follows:
5 days * $40 dollars a day = $200
5 days * 84 miles to and from court * $.48xx a mile= $203.70
As for my LJ icon, yeah it is adorable :) That is what I was going for.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 12:40 am (UTC)What, no polar bear allowance? :-P
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 01:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 01:10 am (UTC)Oh, they did. However, it is not required by law. They /could/ have forced me to use a vacation day and it would have been perfectly legal.
I made this post mainly to make fun of Montgomery County. :-)
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 02:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 02:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 04:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 06:26 am (UTC)I didn't know they paid you so damn little.. ouch!
(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 01:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 03:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 10:04 pm (UTC)http://www.physorg.com/news99808945.html
(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-01 12:58 pm (UTC)It has been brought to my attention numerous times. :-)