Problems with the present

[Mtgorry147]

I'm hoping this is the right place to put this, but i heard the most disturbing thing today with regard to an infastructural project over here.

I heard today that someone who just finished school c. 2 months ago and started working on a site immediately after as a junior site assistant (G.O) has been moved onto a new site on a national infrastructure project and is now been placed in a position where they are supervising people who have never dug before.

This person, whose parent is also an archaeologist is having to come home and ask their parent for advice on how to do certain tasks in order to keep the site running.

The national authorities have criteria for the minimum lvel of experience for certainlevels but this is obviously not being adhered to.

This is making my blood boil, especially when i'm tendering for jobs while costing for fully qualified archaeologists and missing out by 50%.

Its been 4 years since i worked in the uk. Are people back in old blighty seeing the same thing happen there? No names please

[troll]

This is exactly the right place to post your thread. Over here in strawberry and cream land, we have rather a bizarre thing going on. Our "professionals" can choose to sign up to standards or not. They are completely voluntary. Not only that, those standards are not enforced, policed or even visible. In this environment, the individual you describe would (in England) make it to the top quite quickly. In fact, now that he/she has supervisory experience, the Institute here will probably provide them with extra letters after their name too. If your blood boils, keep it simmering and bring it with you to our first BAJR conference due in late 2006 where this kind of sycophantic,pathetic and pig-ignorant arrogance will be addressed.:D

[the invisible man]

Contact the BAJR hotline. If what you say is true then this firm is presumably failing to fulfil its contractual obligations.

Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.

[BAJR Host]

Exactl-e-mon..... Contact me either by email or by any other method. I can then proceed with investigations.

http://www.bajr.org/ResourcesLinks/HOTLINE.html

Another day another WSI…

[Mtgorry147]

Would love to contact you David, but as you canguess this particular unit is working outwith the UK and, in theory is therefore, subject to other national laws, governed by our infrastructural archaeologists who are meant to be checking such things.

I'm not quite sure what can be done from your end David, but I wanted to get it out in the open somehow.