RIP the Golden Age of SPR

Yesterday I was involved in a meeting, and at this meeting I watched the credibility of my program fail and tumble into oblivion in the name of the almighty dollar. Never mind the fact that during or reviews we are finding very serious problems that a poorly trained monkey would have spotted with a short pointy stick. They are not all bad, but some of those errors we have dug up, would have given my old college professor a bad case of the shakes and if I was the one responsible for the before mention mistakes, my butt would have been sore for weeks. Anyway, it was decided that in order to save money we will no longer check as many plans, do as much work on the plans, and most importantly we will no longer be field inspecting our jobs. This bugs me on 2 levels, number one, the field inspection is the most important part of our review, it is when we see that what our man said he found and placed on the plan, he actually did find and place. You would be scared at how often what the plan says isn't what exists in the real world. The second thing that disturbs me on a personal level, is that this means that the favorite part of my job, the part where I leave this dismal concrete tower of civilization and see some of the most interesting parts of the province. The time where I go and learn how to evaluate the evidence, or in some cases find the evidence that is not supposed to exist according to the plan, it is the only real part of my job that I truly enjoy, and that has now been pulled from my job description. If I wasn't under contract I would have given my resignation and leave from this place, but I have 3 months left. I fought for the lats 2 years to give this program some credibility, only to watch my administrative boss destroy it 6 months into my 2 year contract. Right now the ship is sinking, and I am the band who played until the very end.