14th October 2009, 01:32 PM
I hope RedEarth is wrong. JennieReynolds maybe right. I expect that after all the panic over last 18 months many people have stuck thier heads firmly in the sand ("ive still got a job, i've still got a job, got a job, got a job...").
I have to admit that i had hoped more a more througher shake down of the proffesion - I am still not convinced it is sustainable, or more importantly, that it SHOULD be sustianed in the present form.
in the Archaeology & the Global Criss thread, David (CommentTimeSep 9th 2009) said "I have this feeling field archaeologists are one of the few to be capable of actually stabbing themselves in the back!"
this they will have done, if they think that "everything will be fine now"...
Interesting to note the number of stories i have heard about companies selections for redundncies reflecting not demonstrated ability, but 'suitablity' - a chance to get rid of people who 'did not fit in'. This truly is a stab in the back.
One thing that attratcted me to the proffeison was (at the time) the number of people who were activly critical of the modern world they lived in. Not only were the skills and tasks somewhat esoteric and traditional, but i believed that we could better understand, and help change, the present by illuminating it with the backlight of history.
this should begin with ourselves - the way we work, our goals and motivations, our employmnet relations, and our abilty to treat each other as thinking humans in a community.
I hope debate will continue.
I have to admit that i had hoped more a more througher shake down of the proffesion - I am still not convinced it is sustainable, or more importantly, that it SHOULD be sustianed in the present form.
in the Archaeology & the Global Criss thread, David (CommentTimeSep 9th 2009) said "I have this feeling field archaeologists are one of the few to be capable of actually stabbing themselves in the back!"
this they will have done, if they think that "everything will be fine now"...
Interesting to note the number of stories i have heard about companies selections for redundncies reflecting not demonstrated ability, but 'suitablity' - a chance to get rid of people who 'did not fit in'. This truly is a stab in the back.
One thing that attratcted me to the proffeison was (at the time) the number of people who were activly critical of the modern world they lived in. Not only were the skills and tasks somewhat esoteric and traditional, but i believed that we could better understand, and help change, the present by illuminating it with the backlight of history.
this should begin with ourselves - the way we work, our goals and motivations, our employmnet relations, and our abilty to treat each other as thinking humans in a community.
I hope debate will continue.