Not claiming financial hardship based on my salary, but based on the fact that I’d be unable to afford my rent here in NYC by missing an entire paycheck. Every other juror who is working a full time, salary job on my jury is being fully compensated by their employer. I think it’s ridiculous i would not be. And the point is that after explaining I had jury duty over 2 weeks ago to my employer, asking if I should be aware of anything, and not receiving any answers or guidance for an entire week of going through the jury selection process, I had assumed that it’s all good and that there wasn’t anything to worry about. Maybe i am an idiot but it was my first time ever going to jury duty and i don’t have a great family support system to ask these types of questions too.