Quote:Kel, my point is that the senior management were being paid/paying themselves more than you, whatever the starting point of the scale might be.Er... yes? Can you point to any industry where senior management aren't paid more than the staff who report to them? Being in IT at the time, many of the people being paid more than me, were younger than me and had less experience. Their skills were more in demand than mine at the time. It's not an injustice.
Quote:Maybe they should have given you a massive pay cut to teach you a valuable lesson about how difficult the industry is and how rough things can be.They made me redundant a couple of times, does a 100% pay cut count? It reflected the state of the industry at the time. Times were tough, contracts were being lost and work was drying up. Things were commensurately tough for those who sought to work within it and some of us went to the wall - sometimes a couple of hundred at a time.
Points being, whilst archaeology is poorly-paid, it isn't any kind of special case. The same or similar practices occur all over many types of industry. Real World stuff indeed.