This is why I hate opening the mail

[dreamshark]

So I came back from vacation 3 or 4 weeks ago to a stack of unopened mail which I proceeded to ignore until this past weekend. When I finally went through it I discovered:

1) my license tabs had expired at the end of June (and the 10-day grace period was expiring around me as I stood there)

2) the IRS wants more documentation about my 2003 tax return

3) I was summoned to Jury Duty on July 11!! (That's today, for those of you keeping count)

Now I've always kinda wanted to be on a jury, having grown up on Perry Mason, but this was a little sudden. No time to get in touch with work (do I get jury duty leave? No idea). I tried calling my boss, but couldn't get hold of her. Called repeatedly during the day and left two voice mails to no avail. Is she out of the office? I don't remember her saying anything about that. I have no idea who I am supposed to call if my boss is gone and I can't make it to work. She reports directly to the General Manager of the Minnesota site, and I'm not about to call him. Tried HR, but only got an "I'm out of the office" message. Sh*t. Half the office is on vacation this week, which either makes it the best time to be out of work unexpectedly or the worst time. Not sure which.

Comments

Thanks for the reminder!

[fmsv.livejournal.com]

My tabs expired at the end of June as well, and I'd forgotten to put them on until I saw this. (I'd bought them before the end of June, but hadn't gotten around to putting them on.)

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Ericka was summoned to jury duty as well and would have loved to go, but her health sort of precludes that.

State Law...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

By state law, everybody gets jury leave. Paid for? That's a more complicated question...

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

There may be someone you can talk to at the courthouse about rescheduling due to your having been on vacation when the notice arrived, and needing time to arrange things at your place of work.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

You are apparently allowed ONE free jury-duty postponement of up to 6 months. But you have to pick the new date at the time you file for the postponement, and you have to show up for that one with no backtalk.

Now is as good a time as any. In fact, if I'd had to pick the dates in advance I couldn't have done better at targeting a slack time in my job. My boss would have preferred it if I had given her, say, a day's notice, but she didn't seem too bothered about it (yes, I finally got hold of her. Turns out the whole office was at an Engineering Picnic on Monday.)

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that worked out. I went on jury duty once many years ago. It doesn't seem to come up very often. You may never need to use your free deferral.