25th August 2010, 08:22 PM
People (the diggers of today, yes this is an old git having his ha'penny-worth....) always seem to go up in flames when I query the claim that digging standards today are much superior to, say, in the bad old days of the 1970s - actually on average they're s**t compared to back then when people lived in tents on/near site and on a nice summer evening would e.g. fill in the time before heading down the pub hanging with the site planner while they were finishing something and actually learning how to plan (that's largely how I learnt), these days it's a miracle if the workforce aren't already in their cars and a receding cloud of dust at 5pm.......with that kind of group mentality why should I even waste my time passing skills on? Gone are the days when people actually stayed till they'd finished what they were doing 'cos it was forecast to rain overnight and would be trashed when they returned the following day, there's the distinct impression of a lack of pride in the work these days (with the occasional pleasure of a surprise exception).... :face-stir: