Airline New Hire/Jury Duty Scenario

moxiepilot said:
Tell the selection panel you can tell if a person is guilty just by looking at them.
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You obviously don't understand the difference between a Grand Jury and a Petit jury. The DA would be attracted to him like a leech looking for a blood meal.
 
bc2209 said:
What would you do?

You have received a letter telling you that you're on a list for Grand Jury Duty. You could be called in the next 12 months to sit two days a week for four months to be part of a grand jury.

You are also approaching your 1500 hours in the next couple of months.

Suck it up and delay new hire training? Get hired and try to finish new hire/IOE? Try to postpone jury duty?

I don't know what to do.
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Don't delay training/IOE.

If you get selected for jury duty, attempt to postpone and also communicate that with your chief pilot and union rep.
 
This happened to me while I was on the other side off the country during my aerial survey gig, I just called them up and told them that it is really important I don't miss any time from work as I am still working on my career and the lady was like "ok thanks! We'll find somebody else!" So far they seem pretty understanding!
 
bc2209 said:
What would you do?

You have received a letter telling you that you're on a list for Grand Jury Duty. You could be called in the next 12 months to sit two days a week for four months to be part of a grand jury.

You are also approaching your 1500 hours in the next couple of months.

Suck it up and delay new hire training? Get hired and try to finish new hire/IOE? Try to postpone jury duty?

I don't know what to do.
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Seems like the anxiety is just a weeeeeee bit premature: 1) the OP may be called in the next 12 months, and 2) the OP doesn't even have a job yet.

Call me crazy, but I'd think that the more immediate concern would be getting to 1,500 hours and successfully landing a job. Seriously, if you're going to worry about a possible jury summons, you'd better start worrying about an asteroid impacting earth.
 
moxiepilot said:
My skin is thick. Why are you apologizing? Are you Canadian????
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I got called for Grand Jury selection and went to the selection part. I told them that my job would interfere with my ability to be there on consistent basis over that period of time. They selected me with an alternate that would go in my place if I was out of town. They dropped that pretty quickly when the schedules didn't match up the first couple of times and then they released me.

Their last grand jury foreman was a United pilot so they seemed pretty high on the pilot thing and wanted more of us. A big part of my situation was the fact that I work for a foreign carrier and at the time we didn't have really clear rules regarding jury duty and it had the potential to negatively affect my employment. After the alternate went in my place they decided to just go with him and that was it. I actually wanted to do it and thought it would be really interesting.
 
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