five days... BTC/USD price GO DOWN. Still 0 confirmations... Yes, bitcoin is "more better then traditional banking"...
The sender paid a super-low fee. You should talk to the sender about why they spent around US$0.0015 to send you the money. Were they just being cheap or didn't they think that paying you was that important?
Think about it this way: it sounds like you don't want to work for free, well, the miners say the same thing - to a certain extent. A few days ago the recommended fee was around US$0.07 (iirc), that is still pretty cheap, the sender didn't even pay a penny.