9th November 2013, 05:47 PM
Tool Wrote:By its nature, this business is always going to be bottom-heavy. It takes a lot more people to dig a site than it does to write the report on it. There is never going to be the positions where the pen is used more than the trowel to account for everyone who starts in the business.a body supposedly representative of its members with a manifest commitment to the nations archaeological resource - a bit like politics - and i'm glad it made you laugh
But you do raise an interesting point. The task of the digger is often incredibly physically demanding both in terms of the work itself and the conditions in which it is done. It takes its toll. Is there a simple solution to this? Higher pay might help, but all the money in the world doesn't fix a knackered body.
So you think the concept that a body supposedly representative of an entire and diverse industry should be appealing to, and representative of, a large percentage of its employees is a bit UKIP do you? Now that is the funniest thing I've heard today! Well it would be funny if it didn't represent the very real situation where the body that is supposedly representative of an entire and diverse industry seems content to alienate a whole segment of that industry's employees. A dictatorial irrelevance seems even more apt... Me? UKIP? That's going to keep me chuckling for a good few hours!
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers