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10th October 2016, 01:09 PM
Sith Wrote:I must be doing something wrong because I've never found an opportunity to 'syphon off' funds intended for the actual archaeology of any project I've worked on.
Lots of projects have a fixed archaeology budget, the more the consultant wastes on pointless meetings, reports and nit-picking, the less actually gets spent on the archaeology?
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10th October 2016, 03:10 PM
Quote:'m willing to bet that any straw poll on facebook etc
not quite what I asked.
I asked for a private message or email here...
info@bajr.org to back up the statement --- I have to admit a serious charge such as that, would need me to actually see why you say that. otherwise it is just site hut hearsay and mumbles.
And Dino... ( as a sometimes consultant myself) thats not how it works. ie... If a meeting is not made... then it does not take from the archaeology - I would suggest you add something into your tenders (fixed bid or otherwise) to allow for additional meetings. I both expect it and do it when I am on the "other side" as well
So PP... please email me with the evidence or remove your comments... I await.
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10th October 2016, 04:50 PM
BAJR Wrote:So PP... please email me with the evidence or remove your comments... I await.
at the risk of being hunted down and spatchcocked by the evil empire, via the court ordered agency of sequestering my otherwise deniables, would you accept a comparison of said empires published profits dwarfing that combined of the uber units?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers
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10th October 2016, 05:03 PM
BAJR Wrote:And Dino... ( as a sometimes consultant myself) thats not how it works. ie... If a meeting is not made... then it does not take from the archaeology - I would suggest you add something into your tenders (fixed bid or otherwise) to allow for additional meetings. I both expect it and do it when I am on the "other side" as well
One of the projects I'm currently involved in, the client is having kittens over the
global archaeology (over)spend, much more of which could have been spent on digging/PXing/publishing the archaeology if several intermediate tiers of office-archaeologists above the contractor were either trimmed back or stopped from bigging-up their roles, e.g. endlessly bouncing-back reports for 'edits' which were, in general, fine and fit-for-purpose (in that most of them didn't really have one) the first time around
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10th October 2016, 05:40 PM
PP - answer is no... that is not really evidence of your initial accusation. .. um so/... er Nope
Dino... I see where you are coming from... however on teh flip side, I have seen and sent back reports that were not fit for purpose. or so one liner as to be a laugh. I have argued with consultants as a curator and been in heated discussions as a consultant... and been a contractor feeling pressured... To think that consultants are just there to cream off money that could be spent on archaeology though is however not something I have come across in my experience ( and it is quite extensive) ---
One report I bounced back 4 times... until I just wrote it myself... ( perhaps I should have charged them)
As most archaeology budgets are budget dust... the thought that millions is lost to archaeology because of consultants is quite funny... indeed one could say that there is more archaeology because of them ...
Glass half full.
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10th October 2016, 05:45 PM
These days everyone has their own consultant - on a big infrastructure that can (does) make for a whole tree of them, all trying to make their own mark (mostly unhelpfully). Surely one would be enough? - and the actual contractor of course, who was presumably appointed in the first place as being fit to deal with the archaeology... :face-thinks:
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10th October 2016, 05:48 PM
oh, and there's a brilliant report in the West Yorkshire HER with a whole
sheaf of rejection letters stapled to the front - the public would be horrified if they knew who had originally submitted it }
...never did figure out exactly where the trench had been dug, which was what I needed
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10th October 2016, 07:10 PM
Quote:oh, and there's a brilliant report in the West Yorkshire HER with a whole sheaf of rejection letters stapled to the front - the public would be horrified if they knew who had originally submitted it }...never did figure out exactly where the trench had been dug, which was what I needed
Tell me about it...!
That one sounds a cracker/...
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10th October 2016, 07:10 PM
Quote:Surely one would be enough?
Agreed... otherwise it gets too complicated...
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12th October 2016, 06:38 PM
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I have got a first tier tribunal case against the FOI about their fcuting Act so that I can get at Lincolnshire wnaky Council Mounties next week on the 18th somewhere like Sailsbury Square London, 10 Oclock but do you think that you coyuld find it advertised on the web .........No.....what to do ............
bajr leave P.P, alone whole of behind
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist
