23rd September 2011, 08:36 AM
Kajemby Wrote:That would be fine, if the company we both know you work for actually gave the option for SE staff to set their own hours, which we both know they don't. Don't get me wrong, they were good to work for, but lets not kid ourselves that SE staff can dictate what hours or what days they work there, as they cannot. That is dictated in the contract that is sent out before work starts.
Judging by the fairly random amounts of time that people seem to take off when they've previously committed themselves to being out digging, I'd disagree with that, the likes of myself who have gone for the pension option with a strictly restricted number of days leave PA certainly can't get away with that! And when I was SE I did actually work when I wanted and not when I didn't (and was free to turn down jobs I couldn't be a**ed with, and on numerous occasions went and worked for other units with more interesting-looking sites), its just that the best way of getting paid tended to be being on site when it was open, an archaeologist was required, and when there were actually other people there to supervise, so it all tended to end up looking like a 9-5 40hr week. Being employed certainly puts a crimp in the amount of work I can get done/days when I can't be bothered to get out of bed