"I'm suprised her ass doesn't hurt the amount she sits on it"

[pinksonia]

This is going to turn into a bit of a work rant, but first there will be some background.  I always like to give fair warning for rant-i-ness. 

I am a professional archaeologist.  I have been for a little over five years and have been at my current company for a little over four and a half.  It will be five come the second of January.  I started out as a field tech and got to the point where I was one of the more respected crew chiefs.  Then, last year about this time I moved into the lab to become one of the historic analysts, which means I identify and catalog all of the historic artifacts our company find.  </back story>

So anyway, right now there are some contractual issues with our major [read only] historic project which mean that we can't do any of the lab work only the field work.  And since we didn't have anything left to do in the lab the other historic analyst and I were sent to help out in the field.  I wasn't my first choice of how to spend my September and October thus far, but it's not too bad.  Except, the current crop of field crew are some of the laziest I've ever seen and it is driving me nuts.  Seriously there is no need to :

• Sit down while using a pick axe.  No really, they work better if you stand up!
• Sitting down to screen.  See above.
• Sitting down to dig.  Once again, see above. 

Okay, really, this is a very physical job.  If you find yourself spending more than ~15% of the day in a seated posititon (and I am including lunch in that approximation) you are doing it wrong! But the part that is really driving me nuts, is that I am no longer part of the field hierarchy, so while I can recognize the problem, there is very little I can do to actively fix it. 

<small>The title here is a direct quote from the project manager on site</small>

Comments

[lotrangel17.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's hard to keep your tongue when you see people not doing what they should be.

LOVE the quote from your manager, lol, too funny.

[teapostal.livejournal.com]

It is really amazing - it doesn't matter what job/industry you work in, you find the same type of people, the same characteristics, the same issues.

Also - archaeology <3. I had dreams of that once upon a time, but then I realized that I wasn't so much interested in archaeology so much as historical theory and study. But I still find it really interesting.

[cream-n-coffee.livejournal.com]

I honestly think it's a new generation of graduates who are just plain lazy.

When I went to field camp, I dropped 15 lbs and actually had muscle. Going in the field with a backpack full of rocks AND tools is physically demanding. I once sat down looking at my topo map and my teacher yelled at me for being too lazy to get up and look around. I quickly learned any type of geo field is not for the weak.

My husband currently bitches at work about the new hires and how they are lazy. Just yesterday he told me a coworker went to his boss and said that he was afraid he couldn't catch up with the other geologists in the mine because he was fat. And he wished the sample boxes weren't so heavy and big. My grandma could do that work, so what the hell!!

It is best to keep your mouth closed and let God sort them out. Hah. It's amazing how they even graduated.