Employee gets called up for jury duty, boss forbids them from taking a week of unpaid leave: 'You have 2-3 days max'

What matters more: your duty to the society that you live in, or your job?

It is a question that some would find difficult to answer. Surely, it should be a no-brainer for us all to do our bit in trying to make society as positive and fair a place as possible, but the stress of finding and maintaining the employment that allows us the money to live can easily cloud that judgment. In different ways, they are both very important things to most working-age people at this point in time.

Although even the strictest of employers should recognize that there are situations where employees have no choice but to make serving the system their priority, it doesn't always work that way. Something like jury duty is not that easy to get out of, no matter how snowed under an employee happens to be in the office.

Bosses have to be aware that they are not always going to be the person who has the final say on what a worker is doing during normal working hours. Unfortunately, not all of them are willing to accept that and are more interested in their power trip, or their inability to cover the schedule. It makes an experience that is already stressful into something that is even worse.

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One employee found themselves in an impossible situation when they were called up for jury duty, as it clashed with their work. They requested a week of unpaid leave in order to be able to do what had been asked of them.
Despite explaining their reasons for this vacation time request, their boss insisted that he was unable to give them a full week and that two or three days was the maximum that he was willing to allow. Despite protesting that they did not want to be served a bench warrant for the sake of their low-paid job, he stood firm in his reasoning. The employee looked for advice.
My boss is trying to get me to skip going to jury duty

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