18th April 2010, 02:18 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:....your original post gives enough details that someone else from that site must recognise it, any takers?...
Ho hum, had expected people to post on here, not....aren't mobile phones wonderful things, must remember to turn my work one off when not at work....
A slightly annoyed supervisor from your last job (but it seems not one of the one's you're complaining about) can clarify things slightly on the ones you are complaining about. If I've got this right, when the job you're complaining about first started the contractor started digging holes at random all over the job without any obvious plan (I know that hassle well!), but, and this is a big but, without providing any of the vehicles to the archaeologists which were meant to be part of the contract, and also refusing to pay for them to hire any in. The only feasible response, apart from missing whole swathes of archaeology (you've already made it clear that you care enough about the job to be horrified by that concept - credit where it's due), was to find people who were deemed sufficently responsible and capable and (listen carefully here) had their own transport, and make them up as extra supervisors. If you were there, had more experience than them, and had a car, it sounds like you'd have gone to the top of the list, since apparently they'd have made-up more people if there'd been any more fitting the criteria. Apparently those made up were not regular diggers with that company, so accusations of favouritism don't wash either. Am led to believe they've worked out quite well (not people I know so taking someone else's word for that), and have been propelled up the career ladder nicely since it'll look good on their CVs, particularly since it sounds like a dreadful site to be trying to do archaeology on.
Hope that's cleared that one up, as I say, there's usually more than one side to a story....