5th June 2013, 05:06 PM
Seedy Girl Wrote:In my previous, non-archaeological life, I always turned up for work on time...
Needs more work on that 'reading back through what you've written'...
The most 9-5 PO I've ever worked with actually tended to endanger his passengers driving to work by extending this approach to travel time, on days I was filling in driving the same vehicle on the same run I was p***ing people off by making people get up 20 minutes earlier in order to arrive as the same time while taking some notice of the speed limits :0 ...he isn't here any more...
I've worked on several jobs where half the crew were sitting in the van on the dot at 5 on the last day and getting angry because...errr...the other people were loading the tools and cleaning out the cabin cos the other half couldn't be assed. That definitely gets remembered....and I've seen it far too often
Actually I may be the wrong person to be complaining since I tend to spend the time to get the job done however many hours are specified on my contract, often the best time to see features is early morning when the ground's damp from dew and the sun's not quite over the horizon for instance, and I'm never going to hand a site back till I've got it tidied up and in order, even if there wasn't time to do justice to the archaeology. We once rescued an entire van-load of fencing, grid pegs and the like from a site that someone had 'disestablished' from, makes you weep...
