28th August 2009, 02:41 PM
has everyone gone mental!
Perhaps on David's suggestion people on the same site should get different rates - 'you've got a villa at this end of the site so it's 10% off your pay packet...'
I fully appreciate that it is nice to work on interesting and exciting sites, of course it is, but it's a lot nicer to have reasonable pay and conditions, PPE supplied, not be expected to work 12 hours a day for 8 hours pay etc. All the lovely archaeology in the world is only going to keep that out of the back of your mind for a few years at best. Besides, some areas do have far 'worse' archaeology, that's just the nature of the thing, but it is still providing the same sort of information. When did we all become treasure hunters!
All I'm saying is that you can't judge a unit on the quality of the archaeology, might as well base it on how many letter Bs there are in the company name, or whether there's anyone called Terry working there... I fear we have become used to saying 'yeah the pay's crap, but I got to find some treasure last week', rather than 'is the pay crap because I might find some treasure one day?' We don't get to take it home after all.
Perhaps on David's suggestion people on the same site should get different rates - 'you've got a villa at this end of the site so it's 10% off your pay packet...'
I fully appreciate that it is nice to work on interesting and exciting sites, of course it is, but it's a lot nicer to have reasonable pay and conditions, PPE supplied, not be expected to work 12 hours a day for 8 hours pay etc. All the lovely archaeology in the world is only going to keep that out of the back of your mind for a few years at best. Besides, some areas do have far 'worse' archaeology, that's just the nature of the thing, but it is still providing the same sort of information. When did we all become treasure hunters!
All I'm saying is that you can't judge a unit on the quality of the archaeology, might as well base it on how many letter Bs there are in the company name, or whether there's anyone called Terry working there... I fear we have become used to saying 'yeah the pay's crap, but I got to find some treasure last week', rather than 'is the pay crap because I might find some treasure one day?' We don't get to take it home after all.