Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Miguel Sanchez]

Just now, Salt n Vinegar said:

If you have a holiday already booked - as in a hotel reservation, not just having asked time off work - you should be able to get off that jury service. I was called for September as well, but we had booked B&B for that time months ago so just sent an email to the address on the notice and I heard back very quickly that I was excused.

Yeah I'm just off, I'm not going away.

[Salt n Vinegar]

1 minute ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Yeah I'm just off, I'm not going away.

Damn. You couldn't cancel your time off, take the jury service, then take your holiday later?

[welshbairn]

3 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Yeah I'm just off, I'm not going away.

Bear in mind that the odds are against your name getting picked out of the hat on the day, I was on the list recently and just had to phone in a couple of times to check if I'd been chosen. I wasn't. 

Edited August 18, 2023 by welshbairn

[Zetterlund]

I had jury service a few weeks ago. I was off work for a full week but only in court for 1.5 days - a massive, expensive pain in the arse. Being self-employed I was entitled to the princely sum of about 90 quid compensation.

I've since learned that as I work for myself with no employees, I could have asked for an excusal on the basis that my business would need to cease trading for the duration of the trial.

[philpy]

I thought I was getting called up as a witness for a case at the high court, but was never needed, but I was going on holiday the week the trial was starting anyway. Evil c**t was found guilty anyway.

[johnnydun]

I was picked for Jury duty once, however, this was short lived as I knew one of the boys in the dock.

A drug deal that went South pretty quickly when they wanted to leave with the cash and the drugs, ended in a lot of stabbing.

Edited August 18, 2023 by johnnydun

[Bert Raccoon]

I've never been called for Jury Service but I did once earn £20 as a teenager for standing in a police line up for a murder.

 

For the record they don't pay the suspect 

[Miguel Sanchez]

5 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I've never been called for Jury Service but I did once earn £20 as a teenager for standing in a police line up for a murder.

 

For the record they don't pay the suspect 

That's cheating and surely makes it obvious who it is.

[BFTD]

I saw something a while ago where people were asking about paid leave from work in certain circumstances (illness, jury duty, etc) and, even though most folk felt they'd be chancing their arm, the verdict was that you're completely entitled to cancel your leave if you wouldn't be able to attend work anyway.

I've had a couple of bosses who'd likely have blown their stack at the cheek, so I'm quite sad never to have had the chance to try it.

['WellDel]

31 minutes ago, BTFD said:

I saw something a while ago where people were asking about paid leave from work in certain circumstances (illness, jury duty, etc) and, even though most folk felt they'd be chancing their arm, the verdict was that you're completely entitled to cancel your leave if you wouldn't be able to attend work anyway.

I've had a couple of bosses who'd likely have blown their stack at the cheek, so I'm quite sad never to have had the chance to try it.

I don't know if there's a difference between lieu leave you have requested and set leave allocated by your employer,  but there shouldn't be.

Where I am, we are assigned our 5 weeks leave at the start of the year, and I'm pretty sure there's been instances of folk claiming theirs back when jury duty and such like have fallen at the same time as their hols

No-one should have to forfeit their time off work, which is supposed to be time away from your employment to rest/recharge or whatever, only to have to carry out a potentially very stressful legal task instead, then return to work less energised instead of more. That time's got to be reimbursed to be used for the purpose it is intended.

@Miguel Sanchez get your employer telt.

[Miguel Sanchez]

2 minutes ago, 'WellDel said:

I don't know if there's a difference between lieu leave you have requested and set leave allocated by your employer,  but there shouldn't be.

Where I am, we are assigned our 5 weeks leave at the start of the year, and I'm pretty sure there's been instances of folk claiming theirs back when jury duty and such like have fallen at the same time as their hols

No-one should have to forfeit their time off work, which is supposed to be time away from your employment to rest/recharge or whatever, only to have to carry out a potentially very stressful legal task instead, then return to work less energised instead of more. That time's got to be reimbursed to be used for the purpose it is intended.

@Miguel Sanchez get your employer telt.

Oh I absolutely will, I just enjoyed the irony of it waiting for me when I got in.

[Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo]

Glenn Hoddle.

[RH33]

I got cited for jury duty, Dr wrote me a "she's a psycho" letter and I got excused.

[Pocketman]

Stand-up comedians who refer to their "art" and then go on to deconstruct and analyse their art-form. This is on the back of stand-up routines that include half a dozen fart jokes, the difference between cats and dogs, and observations re filling the washing machine. 

 

[Pocketman]

When am out with the dog, strangers who refer to me as the dog's "daddy". We are not related - his dad died about 5 years ago I believe. 

Edited August 19, 2023 by KingRocketman II
typo

[Swarley]

51 minutes ago, KingRocketman II said:

When am out with the dog, strangers who refer to me as the dog's "daddy". We are not related - his dad died about 5 years ago I believe. 

These guys calling you "Daddy", they aren't hanging about near public toilets are they?

[GordonD]

15 hours ago, johnnydun said:

I was picked for Jury duty once, however, this was short lived as I knew one of the boys in the dock.

A drug deal that went South pretty quickly when they wanted to leave with the cash and the drugs, ended in a lot of stabbing.

Don't think even Perry Mason had a case where the actual culprit was one of the jury...

I've been on a jury three times (called three times more but managed to avoid it) but only once did the case run its course. The first time was an assault/GBH in the Falkirk area; charges were dropped on the second day because it was just a big fight outside a pub and they couldn't prove who started it. The second one was something similar but the accused changed his plea on the second day. Third one was attempted rape/sexual assault; guy was found not guilty as the victim had been pissed and was apparently up for it. (Don't blame me, I voted guilty but I was in the minority.)

[Stellaboz]

The wife decided to play the soundtrack to "Hair" this morning.

Is there anything more excruciatingly painful on the ears??? When my cats throw up it sounds better than this utter shite.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

3 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

The wife decided to play the soundtrack to "Hair" this morning.

Is there anything more excruciatingly painful on the ears??? When my cats throw up it sounds better than this utter shite.

Danny Baker tells the story about him being too young to see the stage show but his sister got him in.

There was a part of the show that the cast appear in the aisles, the protagonist was sitting on an aisle seat and was slapped in the pus with a cock when one of the actors swung round whilst in dance in what was probably a well rehearsed move.

[Todd_is_God]

Taxi drivers who claim their card machines are broken