21st March 2010, 04:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st March 2010, 05:44 PM by mididoctors.)
brazier Wrote:....thanks for taking the time to elucidate the issues mididoctors, really good to hear them again. Almost inspired me to dust up my stats learning, but aware of hideous complexity of it all.....!
Why did you get into archaeology?
to be underpaid AND get the wrong answer?
what is the point of us?
if the argument is this is all too expensive or time consuming then its hard to justify the majority of the work being done. why get out of bed...
If we want to know its going to cost..
what i find interesting is that improved conditions unionizing and all this other stuff weighing on peoples minds really starts with a belief in raising the standard of the end product.
If the product has to be better and the monitoring regime is empowered with arguments and agendas that demand better answers SKILL becomes a commercial asset..
Hell.... even the consultancy culture is forced to follow as signing off requires accessing know how of a sufficient standards rather than trying to make it all go away..
Arguing against improved standards is not a easy thing to do as those voices that say we should not challenge the accepted models are really arguing we don't want to know..
thats a very hard position to hold.. think of it this way.. the truth of whether there was a decline in 2nd Londinium is on our side..
Roman london London did or didn't decline in population in the late 2nd Cent... the truth of that is a fact that can not be argued against by anybody.. do we want to know?
a real quote from a MOLA staff member "but that would take for ever" as opposed to what spending forever churning out the wrong answer.
the key to better working conditions is the aim for improving standards... to do that you must demonstrate the substandard product society is receiving from the present system..
which is embarrassing and requires sacrifice and hard work.... Bring archaeology into disrepute
if we pretend all is well and good and atomize our problems and split them off into different areas..ie unionisation etc... without addressing the issue of standards I doubt very much whether a lot of people are going to be able to pay off there student loans in a hurry.
time and money... how do you get to this place?