Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 5
Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Situational Awareness; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Human Factors; Procedure; Staffing; Weather
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.
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.