Q: how many archaeologists does it take to ruin an industry?

[moreno]

Think it was argued out pretty thoroughly on here last year that a degree is irrelevant to being a digger, whether you can actually do a day's grafting rather than whingeing on instead about not using your hard-learned PhD on the typology of Roman ear-picks and bringing everyone else down (or at least giving everyone a good laugh behind your back) is far more important.

A view from the trenches, one can easily say the same of consultants. Having the privilege to work with many hardworking, thoughtful, insightful and decent (people) non academic and academic archaeologists, some have even made good consultants.

Beyond the pale, “hard graft and good site workers…” and actually reads as simply all that’s required to the job is just being a good labourer and doing what your told without question.While some do realise that being able to string a sentence together and write a coherent paragraph for others not directly involved in the fieldwork to whom site records will eventually be passed onto are desirable qualities.

Yet while reading some of these posts it is very evident how some people in the role of management really feel about their colleagues, patronising is being polite and to think that someone is less important than you or that someone is not good enough to be equated in one’s esteem to be considered a work colleague. These are not qualities I would want in a manager.

Deadly, no I don’t believe it is off topic, it speaks directly to the point P.Prentice raises in the thread.