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Accommodation Advice Please! - kirstenamor - 29th September 2010
thanks for the advice guys! I've already emailed the company, just waiting for their response! will look at those websites as well, thanks! and will also check out caravan sites and hostels! and if things get really desperate i guess you will find me camping lol!:face-approve:
Accommodation Advice Please! - BAJR - 29th September 2010
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr well more Blooooody Rain!!!
CAravan sites are good! (well... cheap!) let us know if the company helps out (privately)
Accommodation Advice Please! - Rich_cuk - 30th September 2010
Try easyroommate.com - you can often get month long rentals - it worked for me a couple of months ago
Accommodation Advice Please! - ken_whittaker - 30th September 2010
Kirstenamor
Check out the accomodation listed at http://www.visitnpt.co.uk/placestostay/ShowAllOnMap.aspx, which are recommendations on the Afan Forest Park mountain bike centre, so should be reliable and cover a range of budgets. You might also want to consider locations outside the town centre, as most of the surrounding valleys are well served by public transport (buses), for instance Glyneath and Ystradgynlais are probably only 20mins away.
Ken
Accommodation Advice Please! - JSA - 30th September 2010
I must admit I have put the phone down before when units have told me there is no accommodation. Interested to see how this works out as most people I know just don't bother when there is no accommodation provided.
Accommodation Advice Please! - monty - 30th September 2010
AAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!! will we ever get any where if this is still going on how can units expect high calibre staff if no accom provided .......... its autumn for @*?$'s sake !!!!!
Accommodation Advice Please! - Dinosaur - 1st October 2010
All just part of the endemic stab-in-the-back/undercutting culture in commercial archaeology that makes it all sooooo entertaining. Won't change until people stop applying for jobs with cheap-skate units (but I suppose they'll need to put the dole money up first for that to work) :face-stir:
Accommodation Advice Please! - Unitof1 - 1st October 2010
“how can units expect high calibre staff”
Shirley whats going on here is that units are trying not to discriminate against people who don’t already have accommodation in the area by inviting applicants from outside the area. You could say that outside competition can only increase the calibre of staff….but is it that the units are undercutting local staff by trying to find a calibre of staff who is willing to take the job without accommodation and undercut the local rate (bajr rate ifa rate blahh blahh).
The real problem is that this job only last until the end of October. Not a job, is it, or one that you would want to hang your place in the community on?
How much do you think that you should spend on accommodation?
How about living out of a van for a month. Any views on the economics. I can see a self employed/ employed spilt in how to resolve these problems.
Accommodation Advice Please! - the invisible man - 1st October 2010
Dino answers the question in a nutshell. Contractors do it because they can, if they can get staff of the calibre required for a given set of remuneration and conditions, then of course they will. It's the way the world works.
Accommodation Advice Please! - Mike.T. - 1st October 2010
monty Wrote:AAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH !!!!!! will we ever get any where if this is still going on how can units expect high calibre staff if no accom provided .......... its autumn for @*?$'s sake !!!!!
Therein lies the problem. Most units don't seem to be interested in high calibre ( experienced ) diggers anymore. As long as they've got people on site as cheaply as possible that's all that matters.