22nd December 2011, 10:06 AM
Digger Wrote:I am always surprised when people hark back to the 80's when conditions on-sites are mentioned. Surely it is time for you to move on? Even the space shuttle has been retired now and that was the bees-knees in the 80's.
I've deliberately tried to avoid this sort of comparison, as it's not really relevant or helpful. I'd go back to one of my previous points about sharing facilities with the main contractor - if the unit says that they can't hire toilets or huts by the week, but the main contractor's got them, why not offer some form of payment for use of these during the period when the archaeologists are on site? Seems to me everyone's a winner - main contractor gets an effective discount on hire costs, unit probably pays less than they would for hiring facilities themselves, and the Poor Bloody Infantry get somewhere warm and dry to each their sandwiches.
Like Dirty, I've also worked on sites where no toilets were provided, necessitating a trip to the nearest supermarket on company time. The amount of time that was spent driving back and forth probably cost more in terms of lost productivity and petrol than hiring a toilet would have done.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum