20th July 2005, 01:06 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by cooky
I have no experience of people being sacked for complaining and I have 15 years experience in field arcaheology - though I will accept that there must be unscrupulous units that may do this as Troll suggests.
I do have plenty of examples of people 'not having their contract renewed' - these are often the work shy/useless/troublemaker types who DO use H+S complaints as a means of avoiding work - this happens across the board in archaeology its the oldest trick in the book - and masks many occasions where H+S is breached. I have lost count of the amount of times 'someone' has raised a H+S issue whcih is at best pedantic at worst plainly incorrect. - the boy that cired wolf springs to mind - if you get my drift!
So the way to get around proper H&S procedures then is to brand anyone who makes a H&S complaint as a 'work-shy/useless/troublemaker types who DO use H+S complaints as a means of avoiding work' and to teach them a lesson that they won't forrget in a hurry make sure their contracts aren't renewed. My god who do you work for!! It sounds like some enterprise half-imagined in a Dicken's novel.
If any 'macho' attitude has been expressed on this subject, Mr Cook's takes the biscuit. Surely you need to apologise to your employer for that little outburst as I can't really believe that they (or any of your field staff) could share, let alone endorse, such views.