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TexasTowelie

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2. I was always willing to serve on a jury,

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 11:54 PM

Jun 2015

but I was also paid salary so if I was called it wouldn't have impacted me from a financial perspective. I can understand why an hourly or a commission-based worker would feel different since the time spent responding to jury duty means that they are losing income. I think that it is a matter of being self-centered and that they don't want to have the duty of listening to the problems of other people.

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