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At 9.20 pm a case appeared on my screen with a warning that the guy had told us last time that he wouldn't do any more surveys unless he was paid! Obviously that idea is a non-starter, but I still had to try him.

He wouldn't change his position - he still insisted on being paid, otherwise no survey - but what struck me was how ridiculously precious he was about it. He claimed that his time was "so valuable" that fifteen minutes amounted to a lot of time to "give away for free". Yet, according to our records, he wasn't working. My attempts to talk him round ran into a brick wall : he continued to insist that his "situation" was such that he couldn't give up a quarter of an hour unless he was paid. I wish I'd asked him exactly what that situation was - whatever it is that makes his time so valuable, it's not paid employment (not on the record, at least) and it's clearly nothing so important that he wouldn't drop it for a quarter of an hour if there was a quick quid to be made. My guess is that 1) he was simply hoping to make some easy money out of us and 2) he's completely up his own arse.

The guy did do me a favour, though; by the time I'd written my refusal report it was 9.25 - time to log out, enter my payclaim and go.