28th May 2012, 12:26 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:...while in the meantime those extra pennies (/few hundred quid) come in very handy :face-kiss:
(although this month it's only come to ?50, ho hum)
Short term gain. long term pain.
I am sad to say that I doubt whether it will change until the disparate come together either through Unions or Diggers Forum.
Nice idea. but always some-one out there willing to do the job...
I would guess it would take about 2 months of withdrawal of labour to affect the worst 'offenders' who have only locked themselves into a self fulfilling cycle of undercut, shave margins and the likes. which has the result in competitors ... yes you guessed it.
Unintentionally this was summed up in an email discussion about Rhino Boxes - how perfect they were for the job, how tough they were, and how useful... apart from one thing. they cost money...... THe end of the conversation was this "We need something like a Rhino Box, but cheaper"
That does indeed sum archaeology up. "We want something like archaeology - but cheaper." At the end of the day, you can buy a WHS trowel or a cheap alternative. you can but a Stanley 8m tape or one that is 1/3 of teh price. You can get an archaeological team in, or get a bloke in a rusty 1.6 Nissan Klappedoot with a copy of the brief and a hard hat. .... You get what you pay for, and as long as archaeology takes the approach that we are the bargain basement apology of a profession then... thats what we get. small glasses of lukewarm tea all round (unless the contractors in the site huts pour some hot water through the windows into our dented tin cups.
Ah well....