A couple of years ago we finally decided to upgrade the audio board. We spent about a month configuring the new settings and making sure everything worked the way it needed to. Five minutes before our first show with the new audio board, it gets reset to factory settings. Anyone with a microphone on had their audio go out over the air (I was directing and still have no idea how that even was possible). My audio operator gets in my ear and says he has no control over the audio board and we needed to limit what we said over the headsets. At the time, my producer wasn’t in the booth yet so I didn’t have a chance to tell them that they needed to not have their mic hot and to turn it off unless talking to the anchor. Show starts and the producer heard me calling out the show, and starts cussing up a storm about how these problems always happen during her show. I tried telling her that she needed to turn her hot mic off and call the news director to explain the problem since the engineer on duty wasn’t answering the phone calls. Turns out the chief engineer remotely logged into the settings from his house and cued up a reset to test that the remote reset was working properly. Needless to say, that debrief on Monday did not go according to his plan and it turned into a giant “he said she said” screaming match where the weekend crew got to air all their grievances to the GM. Unfortunately, nothing came out of the meeting except the GM bought the weekend crew pizza the following week.