30th July 2010, 02:11 PM
Stephen Its defiantly about my pension but your advise is not free. Its not free to the tax payers and its not free to the developers. Its not free to archaeologists.
As an archaeologist I imagine that I can trace my profession back to the antiquarians and geologists. I don?t know what job name/description they (the same Opus Dei who created the ifa) have got you under steve but its probably not more than forty years old if that. Now what is a curator, where did they come from. Whats the history of council curation. Its a contrived position. Archaeologists are quite capable of doing curation. The very act of putting a pot in a bag is curation where as what you do is rather obscure in the curation stakes. If you are worried about ethics we can refer to the same codes of conducts that you probably allude to.
And as you say all that?s involved is a phone call. I can do that and be an archaeologist as well. One of the problems of your system is that it is unfair. Some poor sods have to go to the horrible archaeologist to get a heritage statements but many don?t. Where is that fair. All its done is create an unnecessary adjudication in the system which then requires an adjudicator along with an administration and central heating, I wonder what they all will want when they retire from this life time of giving ?free? advice down the phone.
Now you must be working to some criteria, what are they, I presume that they are agreed to by your wonderful councillors through whom you seem to justify your care of duty. Get them to write the criteria down.
You don?t understand do you, they can go and find another archaeologist who was willing to take their case or take it up with my professional association. That?s how it works in all the other professions.
Maybe stev you need to see a doctor if you don?t like the cure then get a second opinion. But sorry forgot in your system you first ring up somebody in the council who is not a doctor and ask them if you need to see a doctor and they tell you what do down the phone and its free
As an archaeologist I imagine that I can trace my profession back to the antiquarians and geologists. I don?t know what job name/description they (the same Opus Dei who created the ifa) have got you under steve but its probably not more than forty years old if that. Now what is a curator, where did they come from. Whats the history of council curation. Its a contrived position. Archaeologists are quite capable of doing curation. The very act of putting a pot in a bag is curation where as what you do is rather obscure in the curation stakes. If you are worried about ethics we can refer to the same codes of conducts that you probably allude to.
And as you say all that?s involved is a phone call. I can do that and be an archaeologist as well. One of the problems of your system is that it is unfair. Some poor sods have to go to the horrible archaeologist to get a heritage statements but many don?t. Where is that fair. All its done is create an unnecessary adjudication in the system which then requires an adjudicator along with an administration and central heating, I wonder what they all will want when they retire from this life time of giving ?free? advice down the phone.
Now you must be working to some criteria, what are they, I presume that they are agreed to by your wonderful councillors through whom you seem to justify your care of duty. Get them to write the criteria down.
Quote:[SIZE=3]Presumably then if a member of the public thinks his DBA and recommendations to a planning committee were sh*t they can simply complain to the cartoon character ombudsman who can inflict punishments such as squashing by giant anvil.[/SIZE]
You don?t understand do you, they can go and find another archaeologist who was willing to take their case or take it up with my professional association. That?s how it works in all the other professions.
Maybe stev you need to see a doctor if you don?t like the cure then get a second opinion. But sorry forgot in your system you first ring up somebody in the council who is not a doctor and ask them if you need to see a doctor and they tell you what do down the phone and its free