Come on people, play nicely
While it may be true that the car park is relatively empty at the weekend, that's because those jobs don't need to be done on an instant basis like the operational controlling. There's a big difference between the admin staff taking the weekend off, compared with just not being there at all.
Let's not kid ourselves that us ATCO's are the only heroes who "work" for the company. After all how many people do you know who aren't ATCO's who have a clear idea of what our job really entails?
We need to stick together across the company, NERC/NSL, Admin/Engineers?ATCO's & ATSA's and anyone else I might have missed out. Divide & conquer is management's usual tactic, let's not make it easy for 'em eh?
"A downtrodden class ... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity" H.G. Wells.
just edited to say...nice to hear some sense being talked by people who obviously type faster than me