1st June 2008, 10:53 AM
Asda and Tesco are constantly pointing out that their prices are cheaper. I think that recently they have been ticked off for claiming to be the cheapest when they were not.
I don?t think that we are getting away from topic. What is archaeology and what is an archaeologists? In this thread we have approached it from what is this course all about. Who created it and who is it for. Is it a game over moral authority and practically, what bloody use is this one day course. I would say that it should be advertised for those working in the charity and student fiddlers set ups. Its a mirror, one day comforter, of their world. The directors in the privately owned might look at it for getting more info on getting grant/partnership money although they would probably rather it specifically aimed at that and wonder if that info can be buried in the rest of the woffle. Would you send of some off your middle management and worry that they might go off and set up on their own (no).
I work predominantly on my own. I have long periods when I (family) am running on credit. This years is getting tight. I rely on getting almost every job I go for, analysis why I did not get it and when I do get it I stare at the cost for identifying the very pot that I have retrieved from the field, washed and then sent off to the appropriate specialist and can wonder why I am paying someone else and at what point is my expertise adequate after all I have been working this area eight years now. Now in the example of the digger on a set wage how much could they be paid if they were expected to identify the pot to an adequate report level as they went along. At the moment there is no reason for them to give a monkies. That they do have an interest is all to their credit.
Heres a potential course question
I recently had a new experience where a government contractor invited three of us apparently out of the yellow pages to a field to discuss a forty metre trench evaluation, told us to go away and get a tender in by five that Friday to start the job by Tuesday. It turned out that one of us had just done a watching brief for the client. Whats going on and what do you do? You might like to start from this point of view.
the system does not say cheapest wins... it says the best tender wins... cheapest tender does not mean the best value... Bidding cheap is a problem
(plus VAT if applicable)
I don?t think that we are getting away from topic. What is archaeology and what is an archaeologists? In this thread we have approached it from what is this course all about. Who created it and who is it for. Is it a game over moral authority and practically, what bloody use is this one day course. I would say that it should be advertised for those working in the charity and student fiddlers set ups. Its a mirror, one day comforter, of their world. The directors in the privately owned might look at it for getting more info on getting grant/partnership money although they would probably rather it specifically aimed at that and wonder if that info can be buried in the rest of the woffle. Would you send of some off your middle management and worry that they might go off and set up on their own (no).
I work predominantly on my own. I have long periods when I (family) am running on credit. This years is getting tight. I rely on getting almost every job I go for, analysis why I did not get it and when I do get it I stare at the cost for identifying the very pot that I have retrieved from the field, washed and then sent off to the appropriate specialist and can wonder why I am paying someone else and at what point is my expertise adequate after all I have been working this area eight years now. Now in the example of the digger on a set wage how much could they be paid if they were expected to identify the pot to an adequate report level as they went along. At the moment there is no reason for them to give a monkies. That they do have an interest is all to their credit.
Heres a potential course question
I recently had a new experience where a government contractor invited three of us apparently out of the yellow pages to a field to discuss a forty metre trench evaluation, told us to go away and get a tender in by five that Friday to start the job by Tuesday. It turned out that one of us had just done a watching brief for the client. Whats going on and what do you do? You might like to start from this point of view.
the system does not say cheapest wins... it says the best tender wins... cheapest tender does not mean the best value... Bidding cheap is a problem
(plus VAT if applicable)