31st October 2006, 03:29 PM
Well I would like to say that I do agree with the majority of the recent posts. Geodan's final paragraph and 1man1desk's point 1 are particularly accurate.
However, I do find it worrying how blasé fellow archaeologists are about a large number of peoples livelihoods.
The general attitude appears to be that if the management/ directors/ unit cannot or will not up the staffs pay then the staff should suffer!?!?! If the unit was âto go to the wallâ there would be a lot of unemployed people and I cant see that that is the correct answer, no matter what the situation.
Surely as colleagues working in the same industry you would all understand that if we could have moved to another job with better pay that did not require moving to the other side of the country and up rooting family and leaving friends, it would have been done already.
Though to return to my original point, I do believe that the general feeling is that if smaller units can not keep up with change, then it is tough. I am not saying that I disagree but I think it would be a shame if smaller units became a thing of the past. Life is not always as black and white as some people seem to want it to be.
However, I do find it worrying how blasé fellow archaeologists are about a large number of peoples livelihoods.
The general attitude appears to be that if the management/ directors/ unit cannot or will not up the staffs pay then the staff should suffer!?!?! If the unit was âto go to the wallâ there would be a lot of unemployed people and I cant see that that is the correct answer, no matter what the situation.
Surely as colleagues working in the same industry you would all understand that if we could have moved to another job with better pay that did not require moving to the other side of the country and up rooting family and leaving friends, it would have been done already.
Though to return to my original point, I do believe that the general feeling is that if smaller units can not keep up with change, then it is tough. I am not saying that I disagree but I think it would be a shame if smaller units became a thing of the past. Life is not always as black and white as some people seem to want it to be.