12th March 2012, 09:43 PM
Does it all boil down to the typical problem - lack of training? As someone else pointed out, if driving is so useful can't employers contribute towards it? They can't afford it so it is reliant on the employees to have taught themselves at their own expense. Great if you have already done so, perhaps in the days when it was a little cheaper, but otherwise not so great. Does that not apply to everything else though too? How many people pay for their own training elsewhere? What if you sent in your CV and were able to add 'By the way I have my own total station/GPS/collection of shovels/finds processing lab/brewery that I am willing to allow the use of for free'? There is nothing very fair in any of this, but if someone who was potentially a real asset was given the heave-ho in favour of some tit with a driving licence (as was suggested might be happening in some cases), something is seriously wrong.