ZFW controller reports of weather and deviating aircraft in his sector. Controller is told by flm to...

Narrative:

I was working dallas high and waco low combined and started to get aircraft that were already deviating around thunderstorms that were covering the north half of my airspace. Aircraft were mostly confined in the lower 1/3 of my airspace and all deviating. I got multiple austin arrivals that I had to descend below all the houston departures and provide mit with barely any room the turn aircraft. In the middle of this; my supervisor came over and informed me that the OM was watching and had called him to order me to start calling weather. I was too busy at the time to call weather and I feel this was an unnecessary distraction at a bad time. I'm being told now that many supervisors are telling other controllers that I had a blatant disregard for safety and simply refused to call the weather out of spite. This is grossly inaccurate and upsetting to me because I am now being paraded about as an example of what not to do. If the OM was up front watching me; he should have realized that it was getting busy and should have called the supervisor to suggest the sector be split off.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZFW Controller reports of weather and deviating aircraft in his sector. Controller is told by FLM to issue weather and states he was too busy to issue the weather.

Narrative: I was working Dallas High and Waco Low combined and started to get aircraft that were already deviating around thunderstorms that were covering the north half of my airspace. Aircraft were mostly confined in the lower 1/3 of my airspace and all deviating. I got multiple Austin arrivals that I had to descend below all the Houston Departures and provide MIT with barely any room the turn aircraft. In the middle of this; my supervisor came over and informed me that the OM was watching and had called him to order me to start calling weather. I was too busy at the time to call weather and I feel this was an unnecessary distraction at a bad time. I'm being told now that many supervisors are telling other controllers that I had a blatant disregard for safety and simply refused to call the weather out of spite. This is grossly inaccurate and upsetting to me because I am now being paraded about as an example of what not to do. If the OM was up front watching me; he should have realized that it was getting busy and should have called the supervisor to suggest the sector be split off.

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Attributes
ACN	1198750
Time
Date	201408
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZFW.ARTCC
State Reference	TX
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 5
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

ZFW controller reports of weather and deviating aircraft in his sector. Controller is told by flm to issue weather and states he was too busy to issue the weather.