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10th December 2008, 05:27 PM
I can't believe it was still going in 2006, it seems like it stopped ages ago!
I was never impressed with the section in the unit review that rated the quality of the archaeology - like the company could do anything about that. Might as well include 'good weather', 'quality of local shops', 'proximity to decent cinema'...
I included my address on the envelope Herr Host, but I can email it if you have lost it...
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10th December 2008, 05:45 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by RedEarth
I was never impressed with the section in the unit review that rated the quality of the archaeology - like the company could do anything about that. Might as well include 'good weather', 'quality of local shops', 'proximity to decent cinema'...
that reminds me of the time that a team of diggers went to the union to complain about the quality of archaeological features on their site.
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10th December 2008, 05:51 PM
were they supported??
"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton
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10th December 2008, 06:01 PM
Not sure how far it got, I don't remember any tribunals over it to be honest....
On the same site one digger complained for weeks about how they wanted to dig some skeletons, so eventually, they got given their chance, only to get all sniffy about it when they realised they would have to dig all the grave fills out, not just lie down with a plasterer's leaf...
Has since left archaeology apparently.
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10th December 2008, 06:05 PM
Aaaa. 1998 doesn't actually seem that long ago but reading the first issue does seem very, very familiar. We used to joke back then that all the people in charge had luckily been in their jobs just as pay became tolerable (you know, the kind of person who became a field officer after 6 weeks of supervising on a university dig)and then rapidly pulled the ladders up behind them. They're all still there. The main diffence between 1998 and now is that pretty soon they will be the only ones left.
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11th December 2008, 10:00 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by bob
Quote:quote:Originally posted by RedEarth
I was never impressed with the section in the unit review that rated the quality of the archaeology - like the company could do anything about that. Might as well include 'good weather', 'quality of local shops', 'proximity to decent cinema'...
that reminds me of the time that a team of diggers went to the union to complain about the quality of archaeological features on their site.
I'm sure the union was ready and clued-up on how to deal with that one!
It may be controversial but one of the reasons archaeologists may never get the pay they, as a body, feel they deserve, is because there is a general willingness to do almost anything to work on a nice site. There's a word for that...
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11th December 2008, 10:50 AM
Also for a lot of people wanting to get their first break in commercial digging without much site experience they see it as a necessary evil hoping to move onto better paid units.
Its called exploitation:face-confused:
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11th December 2008, 04:28 PM
........ ahh..... The Digger......great to see them all again. . . . .let's bring back the fantasy Unit League !!..... it may be a real indicator of any real changes ......