Jobs jobs jobs !!

[kevin wooldridge]

...plus there are still a few mutual building societies around the land.....

[Oxbeast]

Mutuals do make profits, it is just that their members are also their shareholders. All my money is in mutuals, but all my pension fund is probably not (boo).

[Kel]

My last job was with a mutual. It was no less cut-throat or amoral than any of the profit-making organisations I worked for. The City wing of investment bankers was particularly obnoxious. Mutual status does not make a company decent, moral or a good employer. If we're looking for a better type of corporate governance and management style coupled with profit-making, John Lewis/Waitrose is probably a good direction to look.

[CARTOON REALITY]

If we're looking for a better type of corporate governance and management style coupled with profit-making, John Lewis/Waitrose is probably a good direction to look.

Are they currently tendering for excavations?

[Kel]

"Never knowingly under-dug"...?

[Unitof1]

They would say that :face-approve:

[CARTOON REALITY]

They would say that

Is that a hint of cynicism I detect Unit? I'm very disappointed, I never had you pegged as a disenchanted archaeologist.

And this next point is probably related to the 'How should British Archaeology be Run' thread but how about an excavation unit run as a workers co-operative? All workers as shareholders? Might work if they could all stop arguing with each other . . .

[kevin wooldridge]

I remember a meeting with a senior manager of a large archaeological unit seeking to distance itself from its founding institution. Said manager had given us the 'vision' off a rosy downsized future for an equity funded shit-hot enterprise minded archaeological business. '...But ' I suggested, 'there are other models for running a business. A co-operative for example'.....'And what bank would be willing to loan enterprise funding to a co-operative?' asked the manager.....'er the Co-operative Bank' I suggested. Look of disdain overcomes said manager....

[Unitof1]

how about an excavation unit run as a workers co-operative

and this is where I tell,you about the wonderful world of where each individual worker keeps hold of their copyright. That's the definition of co-0Yperive.

[monty]

Well try the Co-operative movement, CWS, Co-operative Bank, Co-op supermarkets etc etc....

I meant archaeological commercial organisations...........