ATC Support Story

[islandboy]

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-c...sending-support-form-pizzas/story?id=60362472

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

It is amazing that you can be forced to work (to include 6 days a week with mandatory OT) and not be paid. If you're not going to pay me at least let me not come in so I can go flight instruct, shovel driveways or something on the side.

I understand a bad situation if you are a controller, but is it literally “forced to”? Can you quit the job if you want to?

I am also curious — is it disclosed in the contract before one starts that this can happen? Or is this some kind of trick in the arrangements with the FAA?