will call you. Luckily I did not get called. Seriously though, my employer would've been hard pressed to find a replacement for me as we are short staffed as it is. They can't even cover a sick call in our unit! Here's better advice: don't try to get out of jury duty and instead satisfy one of your few moral obligations as a citizen. Treating jury duty as an inconvenience is a symptom of the complacency that has contributed to general decline in our civil liberties in the last decade. Sometimes honesty will get you out -- I had one case where a gentleman had been pulled over for driving erratically. He refused to take the on-scene breathalyzer test and ended up in court. When the defense attorney was screening the jury pool, he asked if anybody had an opinion about the defendant refusing to take the breathalyzer. I raised my hand and said "He was hiding something." From the experience of several people I know, the student excuse would not fly. Indeed, I know graduate students who would have to miss classes both that they are taking and that they are teaching who were not excused. Some people have said things along the lines of "well, what if it were you on the stands" and that got me thinking... If I were on trial, I'm not sure I'd want a juror that didn't want to be there. Someone who is willing to go to great lengths to NOT be