Marc Berger Wrote:Isn't this thread confusing....<snip>
Forgive my heavy snipping, but yes this thread is confusing....several arguments running around like headless chickens!
Marc Berger Wrote:Just where in the trainee, academic politic is the archaeologist/digger saying to the clients this is what it costs for what I do. .
In the tender for the job?
Marc Berger Wrote:What's not said in the advert for the trainee is who the client is, who is paying and who owns the archaeology. Automatically anybody applying does not apparantly care and those archaeologists putting the advert out are also saying that it is not important.
This is an interesting question. Care to expand on why it should matter who the client is?
Marc Berger Wrote:Look folks they are employing trainees. This is a boom folks, a boom has little to do with individual single build client customers and is all about government inferstructure spending. These clients will be headless, you will find it almost impossible to pin anybody down as to ownership or even who is paying.
yes there is much profit to be made during both a recession and a boom. Thats just good business. But yes employing trainees to do the work of skilled employees and not actually training them is not only immoral, and destructive for the industry, it is dangerous for the company doing the job when the quality of work is shown to be not up to scratch or they are whistleblown within their own industry or even in the wider scope of the public/press. Private eye anyone?
But, with regard to payment: contracts and purchase orders, purchase numbers etc.
Marc Berger Wrote:What will be going on is that "archaeology" will create a dizzying hierarchy of "archaeologists" all commitment in the creation of a pecking order of trainee assistants to somebody who might be called an archaeologist. Now form an orderly queue folks. In the name of growth Roll over.
Not likely. There are many cabals of beardy pawn-pushers in the background.
PPG16 didn't kill archaeology (just the opposite if you ask many)
The Localism bill didn't kill archaeology
The NPPF didn't kill archaeology
Cuts to local councils didn't kill archaeology (though has cause severe problems)
The infrastructure projects haven't killed archaeology
Growth wont kill archaeology. The watchers who watch the watchers watching the watchers are paying attention.
Never underestimate the lobbying power of those interested in their own heritage!