8th May 2012, 07:57 AM
monty Wrote:It could only happen in archaeology............. no other profession would stand for it.......Really? I'm thinking back to my time in IT where I rarely had a lunch break for ten years, regularly worked through Bank Holidays without overtime, my expected routine office hours were 7:15am-6pm or longer without overtime (which pro-rata'd, sometimes meant I was earning around half as much per hour than the staff I managed), 24x7 callout, occasionally worked 24-48 hours without a break...
Sometimes, archaeology seems to have the view that it's the only industry with cruddy working conditions. Granted driving a desk didn't involve physical strain or risk and I didn't get rained/snowed on for larger portions of the time. But it wasn't all sunshine and roses.