The point of view here is as much a problem as the case. You are looking at the criminal case and that is only how long you spend behind bars. The real question here is money. The airline has it but if they can protect themselves or deflect blame on to you then it becomes how much you have got.
Would you like to find yourself behind bars and your wife and/or children destitute because your estate was wiped out in compensation. Look at the OJ case it wasn’t the criminal charge that got him it was the compensation case that crippled him.
Forget mitigating circumstances, they are just a way of minimising the inevitable. Even a receipt to show you have contributed to a fund to raise money to alleviate the problem is a better defence than “my social life is in ruins” it shows an acknowledgement of the problem and a positive attempt to reduce the risk.
I know my previous post may seem a little naive but it is valid and provides a defence which makes the employer the more attractive target for compensation claims. The interesting thing is the figures if you follow my suggestion and apply the earlier suggested figure of GBP 10.oo (sorry this keyboard doesn’t have a pounds sign) then assuming 8 hrs for the fee and four bedrooms to a transportable that brings in 120 per day or 840 per week or 43,680 per year that is a lot of money for a transportable unit, heck you could buy a house for that in some areas. Even if this didn’t include bedding let’s face it if you knew the facility was there but you needed a sleeping bag you’d be quite willing to carry one, wouldn’t you??
Set up a trust fund…. Take destiny into your own hands!
Don’t just stand in the dock and try to blame your employer, jet lag, anything but you!!
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