9th June 2011, 06:49 PM
P Prentice Wrote:lovely empassioned retort Jack - as ever. but your words in my edit
there is i think a prevailing sense from many in the profession that 'we managed it (read suffered) so why shouldn't you - 'still sorting the men from the boys'
its crap though really isnt it?
Speaking as someone who's dug under the old DoE regime, MSC (happy days, unlimited supply of year-long contracts), PPG16, PPS5 and doubtless will still be doing so under whatever comes next, and have never been short of a job when I've wanted one (past a certain point people phone up to see if you're free to work for them, and a good worker could always find work outside archaeology when there were no decent sites up and running - being able to use a shovel seems to be becoming a strangely rare skill even in the construction industry), no, you're completely and utterly wrong, its the men who seem still to be here having stayed the course, and as Jack has pointed out, cos they want to be :face-stir:
....oh, mention of MSC again brings up the safety issue, a lot of the oiks sent along from the job-centre did NOT make safe site material, too many gory accidents to mention.....:0