9th April 2009, 12:49 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by RedEarth
Quote:quote:Originally posted by oldgirl
[8D] STORING is OK, it's being able to move around.....
And trying not to mention the boxes under the table (which have human remains in them) when you're showing prospective purchasers around the house....
Anyway, don't worry Redearth, you'd said a number of times that you weren't specifically having a go at 'one-man-bands' (or woman bands I assume). If the organisation you're concerned about is going to get work, then they're going to have to supply the number and level of staff they say and demonstrate that those people are present on site, otherwise their client is going to get testy, let alone the curators!
(I and many other people have been known to count the number of people on site and check against how many there are supposed to be. And no, the 'they're in the toilet and will be back in a minute /training/on leave today' doesn't wash with me!)
Hopefully all will work out well. I've also been involved with sub-contracting teams to other, larger organisations when they've been short of staff (in the days not long ago when we had a shortage of archaeologists!), and have also passed work we couldn't cope with to other local organisations.
I think I've yet to come across a one-woman-band in archaeology.
I suppose at the end of the day such practices just seem like another way of cutting costs potentially at the expense of archaeology, but obviously it goes on all the time in all types of organisations (I have seen the slightly hap-hazard manner in which finds were stored at at least one large RAO!) If you went to an accredited museum and they had artefacts randomly piled about, heaped in the staff room, under tables etc you might not be overly impressed - hang on, I think I've been to a few museums like that. Never mind!
We're cross posting - Sorry!
I'm a one-woman band. (although actually I'm not really operating in archaeology much at the moment due to having a non-archaeology main job - it pays the rent!) - and I know a number of others, although most of us aren't in fieldwork.