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Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 7
Situational Awareness; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
Over two hours on position. Total of 25 'over two' this evening. I was [named position] CIC. 3 different times was I pressured to close a sector on my line for staffing. All three times I explained why I felt we needed to keep Sector X and Sector A split. Sector A Controller was fairly busy working ZZZ1 arrivals; with added complexity of the weather; there was a wind change associated with the weather in the area and the final was compressing more than what it was when the Sector A Controller sat down. In turn; he ended up having some go arounds just before I sat down on position. During the time where I was questioned about keeping Sectors X & A de-combined; Sector A had a VFR aircraft that found themselves in clouds and needed assistance getting down. This all caused 3 destination changes; '7'(as the pilot said) frequency changes and ultimately a local IFR pick up and approach to ZZZ2; after they first tried to get in with ZZZ1 and ZZZ. This caused the workload and frankly (visually) the stress level of the sector to increase significantly. He had no business taking on more airspace and aircraft during this time. The supervisor who was pressuring me to close it; told me he wouldn't normally ask but the OM was forcing him to try to get Sector A closed down. Closing the position would've caused an unsafe situation.At the end of the day its very clear the management team (top to bottom) at ZZZ do not care about the overall safety of the operation. This is going to be the summer from hell and I pray no one dies due to controller fatigue combined with a sector that should've been split but not having the bodies to truly run a safe and efficient operation.Accountability for ZZZ Management.We need 40 more controllers.
TRACON Controller In Charge reported pressure from management to combine positions the reporter felt was unsafe to do.