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4690

im right there with you this week (except not hating it). gotta scramble some progress on a few things so I can post in the usual Friday thread in good conscience

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4691

RN

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4692

you must be in leadership. congratulations, you worked yourself out of an actual job into a role babysitting those who do stuff. welcome to the club. it sucks for those of us who find joy in being good at something.

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4693

Thatā€™s the thing about having career ambition. You find yourself in a position where youā€™re doing crap you donā€™t want to do, and not doing the things you used to like about your job.

This year, one of our goals was required to be a career advancement goal. My career advancement goal is to not get promoted, and not get fired. Which is completely valid. My name isnā€™t Peter.

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4694

I got accepted to the Amazon vine program. Order stuff for free in exchange for a review.

I thought Iā€™d do it a bit, do a review then sell crap on marketplace.

Unsure how much Iā€™ll do before I canā€™t be bothered.

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4695

People should be 100% allowed to do this. I had an analyst once, she was an absolute rock star. Iā€™d give her two days worth of work and she would do it in five hours and she didnā€™t make mistakes.

But she hated meetings and had zero interest in anything close to management. I had to shield her a bit from senior leaders who wanted to make her into something else. Donā€™t ruin her, folks, she is the best analyst Iā€™ve got.

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4696

Good for her if thatā€™s what she wanted. Hopefully you paid her well. My experience from back in the day was rock stars tended to just get more rocks and the unspendable adulation from the bosses.

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4697

I had to go into the office today, and I only survived about 3 hours there before I decided to come back home (the reason I had to go into the office was fulfilled by that point). I have few meetings on Mondays, and none of my immediate colleagues go in that day, so itā€™s difficult to stay there when I could come home and multitask instead.

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4698

If youā€™re going to mistype an ā€˜fā€™, ā€œGoof luck!ā€ is definitely the preferred ytpo.

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4699

I wonder which is worse . . .

Getting a summons for jury duty . . .

or getting a witness subpoena to appear in court.

4700

As someone who has recently been questioned and crossed on the standā€¦ Iā€™ll take jury duty any day.

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4701

Depends on why youā€™re being summoned as a witness.

From worst to least horrible, partly conjecture:

  1. Testify about crime you are accused of committing

  2. Testify about a civil matter to which you are a party

  3. Testify about crime someone else is accused of committing

  4. Testify about a civil matter to which you are not a party

  5. Jury duty involving icky violent encounter

  6. Jury duty about any other matter

There may be some overlap with 4 & 5.

4702

lol that bad?

I only saw witnesses and the accused cross-examined and it was pretty tame (I was in the jury).

This was in the UK though. Probably more adversarial in the US.

4703

It is that bad when itā€™s your own, very contentious divorce.

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4704

I donā€™t think Iā€™ll look at jury duty the same again.

4705

Iā€™ve been on 3 juries (trial lengths of 4 hours, 3 days, and 5 days) and never found it a problematic experience.

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4706

The jury selection is very flawed when 4 & 5 overlap.

4707

Iā€™ve been on only one jury (less than a full day, criminal trial). Did not enjoy at all, would prefer not to repeat, but would be willing to.

Last time I was summoned I was honestly able to decline due to a previously scheduled vacation. (Or possibly even more recently I had the opportunity to decline for being over 70? Not sure if thatā€™s an option at all, or that I used it, but I would use if now if itā€™s available.)

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4708

I mean the degree of awfulness overlaps. The easiest case where youā€™re testifying as a third party witness on a civil matter is probably less horrible than the worst day where youā€™re hearing or deliberating on a gruesome criminal matter as a juror.

Not that you would be involved in 4 and 5 on the same caseā€¦ thatā€™s obviously not allowed.

Like if I had to testify as an expert witness on the difference between Uniform Distribution of Death and Constant Force of Mortality - even considering that Iā€™d be cross-examined by a lawyer who wouldnā€™t know what he was talking about - thatā€™s still probably better than spending the day as a juror looking at gruesome photos of a young child who was raped and tortured.

4709

He knows, thatā€™s the joke.

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