19th December 2004, 02:39 PM
As one of dem curator chappies (hey everyone has a hobby) I am tough... work has to be carried out to a minimum spec decided by teh curator... therefore... any IFA reg organisation would get reported to the IFA... (though a certain company that was about to reported (see the digger) actually removed itself from RAO status a couple of weeks before the complaint went in....Nice!!
anyway I digress.......... If a company works within a county and repeatedly fails to meet standards set by the Curatorial service... we are entitled to reject work (or stop it if Health and safety is involved by informing the enforcement officer) and keep rejecting it until it is done as per the specs. This could cost teh developer / contractor a lot of extra cash... so quite quickly the word goes round...and either the contractor makes changes and becomes not just cheap but effective otherwise... no work as what mug of a developer will take on a contractor that although says they will do the job for thruppence... will always get pulled up and end up costing the developer an arm and a leg??
So hotline is a first step.... perhaps attatched to a mass penance and admission that things have got a bit pear shaped and the goal of archaeology has been subsumed into the need for profits and management targets. This will also affect things like wages and conditions... if you employ a student to runan evaluation... then the chances of this going belly up will increase... so employ people wisely and pay decent wages... and hey presto (well hopefully) work is done better by motivated people who are of a suitable level of competance and everyone wins...
a utopia!
anyway I digress.......... If a company works within a county and repeatedly fails to meet standards set by the Curatorial service... we are entitled to reject work (or stop it if Health and safety is involved by informing the enforcement officer) and keep rejecting it until it is done as per the specs. This could cost teh developer / contractor a lot of extra cash... so quite quickly the word goes round...and either the contractor makes changes and becomes not just cheap but effective otherwise... no work as what mug of a developer will take on a contractor that although says they will do the job for thruppence... will always get pulled up and end up costing the developer an arm and a leg??
So hotline is a first step.... perhaps attatched to a mass penance and admission that things have got a bit pear shaped and the goal of archaeology has been subsumed into the need for profits and management targets. This will also affect things like wages and conditions... if you employ a student to runan evaluation... then the chances of this going belly up will increase... so employ people wisely and pay decent wages... and hey presto (well hopefully) work is done better by motivated people who are of a suitable level of competance and everyone wins...
a utopia!