19th October 2010, 08:10 PM
vulpes Wrote:So 99% of your projects go no further than negative evaluation / dull watching brief stage. I have to say that if you were working in my region that would be regarded as highly suspicious. Not found much lately? Have you revised your fail rate down from the original 99.9% because you found summat good yesterday? Don't get all angry with me, I'm quite clear who's talking ....
I look forward to carefully watching you watch someone else drill a hole for a telegraph pole one day
Ah, man/woman/entity playing devil's advocate. As you know full well as a curator, the vast majority of stuff coming out of any unit never comes anywhere near your desk - lucky, if you had to look at it all you'd crawl off into a hole. Take for example recent motorway scheme - reports of one sort or another already run into 3 figures, evaluation reports (by at least 6 different organisations) run into 1000 plus pages, not including geophys, specialists etc (ok, so I chipped in my 400 plus pages in 5 reports, very full box-file), around a dozen background info for specialists type reports, summaries for each site, px assessments, progress reports for the client and consultants, all the specialist asessments, px assessment reports for each site, PDs for each stage, analysis reports, etc etc, till finally at the end of the day you get 1 monograph which knowing how these things go will be limited by financial constraints to a rather slim volume with a CD in the back and some nice piccies just on the off-chance that some brave member of species Joe Public ever gets brave enough to pick up a copy - oh, and maybe a 4 page leaflet as a sop to the 'public inerest' lobby.....20000 pages of s**t for 4 pages of mostly company logos? I think 1% is perhaps being generous!