13th August 2010, 05:43 PM
My experience of the 4 or 5 counties I've mostly worked in over the last 20 years is that the County Mounties or their underlings pretty much never turn up unless either you've found something spectacular or the whole job's gone t*ts...but then maybe things are different in other parts of the country?
Otherwise it's refreshing to find so much realism and sense on one thread, can only concur with most of what's been said above. Any attempts to push prices (and hence wages) up around here over the last 20 years have been constantly undermined by under-pricing competitors (couple of local 'subsidised' ones for a start), and recently increasingly on bigger contracts by certain very large units from the other end of the country -there's plenty of friendly (?) rivalry between the regional medium and smaller players without units from 200-300 miles away muscling in and trying to cherry-pick the good stuff.....but then sadly that's the nature of the commercial game we have to play with :0
I'm going off to drown my sorrows and watch some c**p bands in a field in the p**sing rain for the weekend, the woes of the archaeological profession are for weekdays
Otherwise it's refreshing to find so much realism and sense on one thread, can only concur with most of what's been said above. Any attempts to push prices (and hence wages) up around here over the last 20 years have been constantly undermined by under-pricing competitors (couple of local 'subsidised' ones for a start), and recently increasingly on bigger contracts by certain very large units from the other end of the country -there's plenty of friendly (?) rivalry between the regional medium and smaller players without units from 200-300 miles away muscling in and trying to cherry-pick the good stuff.....but then sadly that's the nature of the commercial game we have to play with :0
I'm going off to drown my sorrows and watch some c**p bands in a field in the p**sing rain for the weekend, the woes of the archaeological profession are for weekdays