Lesson 2: Subsection 1: Attendance[SIZE=2]
As a commercial digger, you will be expected to turn up for work on time (preferably 10 to 15 minutes early), ready and in a fit state to work, each and every day. Starting from the first Monday to the last Friday (or some such).
'It is better to be present with ten men than absent with 10, 000.'
-Tamberlane
Good intentions, it wasn't my faults or I was planning to....don't count for jack.
This may seem obvious, but the practicalities of doing so are often no so simple. The working world, and any ties to the slack world of University that remain, will conspire to thwart your good intentions.
The School of Jack accepts few excuses. It is the responsibility of the digger to make this happen. 'My alarm didn't go off.' or 'I slept in.' do not suffice.
Neither does 'The traffic was bad,' or 'there was a flood.'
Be prepared! States The School of Jack. Take responsibility for yourself and your own actions, set two alarms, set off early enough to avoid any incidents, go to bed early enough and get up early enough to make sure you get to work.
Now obviously, the lesson of attendance takes time to master. Most supervisors will have gone through the same in their early digging days, so may at first be lenient.
But beware! The harsh working world is just a hair-breaths away. The client is ever watchful for slackers, later arrivals and professional loiterers. After all, it is they who are paying for you to be there. Form pipeline snitches, to site managers, to safety officers or even that friendly dumper driver...they are all looking out for themselves, and they see and gossip everything.
Slackers reflect badly on the archaeological supervisor and hence the archaeological company. In the harsh working world, a company cannot afford to be seen to be employing useless slackers as they will not win any follow-on work. So guess what, slackers, loiterers and can't-make-it-in-on-times don't get their contracts renewed.
So turn up early, sober and ready to work. Don't stay out all night boozing. If your not going to make it in, ring the supervisor and the company office (usually before 9am) and apologise and explain why. Learn from the events and mistakes that prevent you from being on site on time. Be reliable and responsible, these are the virtues that make you very employable.
In recent years The School of Jack has seen an employee not turn up one day without a word and never return, leaving the team a man down. Another took two weeks to make it to site through snow, mechanical problems, arguments with neighbors and family issues, once this person did make it to site, it turned out they were on holiday the next week.........not good enough!
'In the old days, the unit director would take a likely student candidate out to the pub with the other supervisors. Over the night he'd feed them a whole bottle of whiskey. If they made it to site the next day, he'd offer them a job on the spot.'
- Maximus Apilus (The Prophet)
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As a commercial digger, you will be expected to turn up for work on time (preferably 10 to 15 minutes early), ready and in a fit state to work, each and every day. Starting from the first Monday to the last Friday (or some such).
'It is better to be present with ten men than absent with 10, 000.'
-Tamberlane
Good intentions, it wasn't my faults or I was planning to....don't count for jack.
This may seem obvious, but the practicalities of doing so are often no so simple. The working world, and any ties to the slack world of University that remain, will conspire to thwart your good intentions.
The School of Jack accepts few excuses. It is the responsibility of the digger to make this happen. 'My alarm didn't go off.' or 'I slept in.' do not suffice.
Neither does 'The traffic was bad,' or 'there was a flood.'
Be prepared! States The School of Jack. Take responsibility for yourself and your own actions, set two alarms, set off early enough to avoid any incidents, go to bed early enough and get up early enough to make sure you get to work.
Now obviously, the lesson of attendance takes time to master. Most supervisors will have gone through the same in their early digging days, so may at first be lenient.
But beware! The harsh working world is just a hair-breaths away. The client is ever watchful for slackers, later arrivals and professional loiterers. After all, it is they who are paying for you to be there. Form pipeline snitches, to site managers, to safety officers or even that friendly dumper driver...they are all looking out for themselves, and they see and gossip everything.
Slackers reflect badly on the archaeological supervisor and hence the archaeological company. In the harsh working world, a company cannot afford to be seen to be employing useless slackers as they will not win any follow-on work. So guess what, slackers, loiterers and can't-make-it-in-on-times don't get their contracts renewed.
So turn up early, sober and ready to work. Don't stay out all night boozing. If your not going to make it in, ring the supervisor and the company office (usually before 9am) and apologise and explain why. Learn from the events and mistakes that prevent you from being on site on time. Be reliable and responsible, these are the virtues that make you very employable.
In recent years The School of Jack has seen an employee not turn up one day without a word and never return, leaving the team a man down. Another took two weeks to make it to site through snow, mechanical problems, arguments with neighbors and family issues, once this person did make it to site, it turned out they were on holiday the next week.........not good enough!
'In the old days, the unit director would take a likely student candidate out to the pub with the other supervisors. Over the night he'd feed them a whole bottle of whiskey. If they made it to site the next day, he'd offer them a job on the spot.'
- Maximus Apilus (The Prophet)
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