From what I’ve heard it’s a great way out of jury duty. When the judge asks if there’s any reason you can’t serve, you can honestly tell him, “If I don’t work, I don’t get paid”.

During jury selection when I served (US state), one of the jurors tried to make that case. The judge asked if he would suffer any immediate or irreparable harm, such as the lights being turned off, being evicted, having your house or car repossessed, etc. Just having to miss payments wasn't sufficient.

He wasn't dismissed. The standard was pretty high.

> From what I’ve heard it’s a great way out of jury duty. When the judge asks if there’s any reason you can’t serve, you can honestly tell him, “If I don’t work, I don’t get paid”.

I've been in several panels from which jury selection was being done, and in the screening-for-hardships portion, those type of things were not, in and of themselves, hardships. Its rather the norm for private employers not to pay for jury duty, leaving you only with the rather minimal jury stipend.

It is not the hill I will die in for choosing a company to work for though. So many other factors. And you find out late in the process.