[Schaumburger]

I have actually served on a jury just once around 1991 or 1992. A civil case which lasted 3 weeks. My manager at the time was not very happy about this, but I received my full salary. A few years ago my former employer changed the jury duty policy to pay employees for only the first 5 days of jury duty. If the trial lasted longer than five days, an employee had to use their vacation time or or take those days unpaid.

One thing that struck me about jury duty, the judge is the boss. He/she says what time is lunch, what time to return from lunch and what time the court is done for the day. If you are a juror, there's no saying, "Hey it's 5:00, I'm outta here."