15th July 2008, 04:09 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by gorilla
Oh that "I hate all councils and all their lacky's" chestnut... yawn. Bored now
I hate it more when people say things like 'it's all jobs for the boys' implying that I work for the council when I don't.
It is a considerable problem in terms of fairness and competition when for example, oh I don't know, the unit and the HER/SMR are in the same building, even the same office. So rather than having to make a special trip to look at something and possibly paying a consultancy charge it is basically free. I can't imagine that would go down very well in any other industry - there are commissions that deal with these things I believe.
I hate to have to use such brutally corporate ways of thinking but for the vast majority of archaeologists working today their conditions of work could probably vastly improve if there was a more level playing field. This may have strayed slightly off topic but I doubt it, as some of the bigger units are in the more priviledged position.