21st June 2006, 12:31 PM
Vulpes wrote:
Of course it is. But you constantly have to make balanced decisions based on how much you will piss off the driver if you ask him to re-machine areas, or whether it is better to accept a bit of machining that is not quite up to your preferred standards. We are not talking about David's obvious example of a toothed bucket vs a ditching bucket (the archs involved with that were clearly negligent), but much greyer areas.
The working relationship between the driver and the supervising arch is critical and you don't lightly jeapardize that by complaining to a manager in marginal cases. So you end up compromising, because in all liklihood you will end up with the same driver in a much worse mood.
I also have found quarry drivers to be very skilled, but that is the least important of the variables compared to their willingness to help you, and the orders they have been given by others that may be contradictory to yours. As usual in field archaeology it's responsibility with limited real power.
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Of course it is. But you constantly have to make balanced decisions based on how much you will piss off the driver if you ask him to re-machine areas, or whether it is better to accept a bit of machining that is not quite up to your preferred standards. We are not talking about David's obvious example of a toothed bucket vs a ditching bucket (the archs involved with that were clearly negligent), but much greyer areas.
The working relationship between the driver and the supervising arch is critical and you don't lightly jeapardize that by complaining to a manager in marginal cases. So you end up compromising, because in all liklihood you will end up with the same driver in a much worse mood.
I also have found quarry drivers to be very skilled, but that is the least important of the variables compared to their willingness to help you, and the orders they have been given by others that may be contradictory to yours. As usual in field archaeology it's responsibility with limited real power.