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Aug. 15th, 2006 06:00 pmAn extra shift today, working on the 'Dress Rehearsal' - test-driving potential revisions to our survey. The proposed changes include adding a few extra questions, and Sonia and I, the only people doing dress rehearsal today, were given guide books to write down any problems or issues that arose. When my first two interviews both took half an hour just to do one person, which is double normal length, I mentioned it to Sonia next to me, who'd just had the same happen to her - we agreed that was something that'd need ironing out!
Some of our respondents were people who'd just finished a year doing the real survey. We'd written to them all to ask if they'd help us one more time, but those in charge hadn't quite done their research properly. I got one woman who was decidedly displeased to be asked, as she said she'd made it "abundantly clear" at the end of her last real survey that she didn't want to do anything more! There was also a bloke who'd been booked as having made an appointment for his wife for this morning, but when I called him he said he'd told one of our ladies last week that they didn't want to do another survey, only she'd been "extremely persistent."
Sonia asked whether I'd be on dress rehearsal again tomorrow; I said no, I'd be back on the ordinary chain gang. That dampened her spirits as she's afraid of being all on her own tomorrow, bless her.
Annoyingly, my last call overran by just a couple of minutes, putting only pennies on my pay but meaning I had to wait around an hour for a bus. Spent the time in the library catching up on BB news then wacking out some e-mails - and ended up cutting it fine for the bus. In fact, as I walked up the approach road the bus was sitting at the stop waiting to pull away (though it was a minute and a half early) - I frenetically waved to the driver and, thank goodness, he actually waited for me. Phew.
Some of our respondents were people who'd just finished a year doing the real survey. We'd written to them all to ask if they'd help us one more time, but those in charge hadn't quite done their research properly. I got one woman who was decidedly displeased to be asked, as she said she'd made it "abundantly clear" at the end of her last real survey that she didn't want to do anything more! There was also a bloke who'd been booked as having made an appointment for his wife for this morning, but when I called him he said he'd told one of our ladies last week that they didn't want to do another survey, only she'd been "extremely persistent."
Sonia asked whether I'd be on dress rehearsal again tomorrow; I said no, I'd be back on the ordinary chain gang. That dampened her spirits as she's afraid of being all on her own tomorrow, bless her.
Annoyingly, my last call overran by just a couple of minutes, putting only pennies on my pay but meaning I had to wait around an hour for a bus. Spent the time in the library catching up on BB news then wacking out some e-mails - and ended up cutting it fine for the bus. In fact, as I walked up the approach road the bus was sitting at the stop waiting to pull away (though it was a minute and a half early) - I frenetically waved to the driver and, thank goodness, he actually waited for me. Phew.
