ZJX controller reported aircraft were deviating for weather and he had to hold other aircraft for ai...

Narrative:

Mid shift started on at least 4 sectors (normally on one); 2 controllers held over for one hour. At the end of that time [they were] put on 2 sectors. I had worked one mco arrival he was unable to stay in the arrival areas [and] deviated well into another area. I was asked by management where the arrivals to mco should go; I said they cannot make it this way. I was told 'you have 20 coming' the overtime controllers and management left telling me I needed 20 miles in trail (mit) to mia center on mco arrivals.the sector was extremely busy; weather deviations and trying to vector for sequence. Eventually tpa approach called to tell me to hold tpa arrivals this added to complexity. I called supervisor from central area to help coordinate with mco approach that I could take no more departures; the mid supervisor came to sector and helped watch traffic; a fellow controller from east area came and worked d-side till it was somewhat manageable traffic maintained at high volume throughout the next few hours.do not leave controller hung out to dry with no support just because it is time to go home.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZJX Controller reported aircraft were deviating for weather and he had to hold other aircraft for airports with weather problems. Controller reported he felt overwhelmed by traffic volume and no support from management.

Narrative: Mid shift started on at least 4 sectors (normally on one); 2 controllers held over for one hour. At the end of that time [they were] put on 2 sectors. I had worked one MCO arrival he was unable to stay in the arrival areas [and] deviated well into another area. I was asked by management where the arrivals to MCO should go; I said they cannot make it this way. I was told 'you have 20 coming' the overtime controllers and management left telling me I needed 20 Miles in Trail (MIT) to MIA Center on MCO arrivals.The sector was extremely busy; weather deviations and trying to vector for sequence. Eventually TPA Approach called to tell me to hold TPA arrivals this added to complexity. I called supervisor from Central area to help coordinate with MCO approach that I could take no more departures; the mid supervisor came to sector and helped watch traffic; a fellow controller from east area came and worked d-side till it was somewhat manageable traffic maintained at high volume throughout the next few hours.Do not leave controller hung out to dry with no support just because it is time to go home.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1344866
Time
Date	201603
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZJX.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 22
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

ZJX controller reported aircraft were deviating for weather and he had to hold other aircraft for airports with weather problems. Controller reported he felt overwhelmed by traffic volume and no support from management.