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This feels like it was work sort of, but I was program director of my college radio station, WKDU in Philadelphia in 2005 or so. It was a volunteer position, and I was to oversee programming quality and the schedule, etc.

One of my duties was to randomly listen to radio shows to check for errors and issues, and make sure people are actually doing their shows.

We had a live stream, so I used some linux stream ripper and cron jobs to record the stream into 3 hour chunks (the default show length) and then time stamp them. This made it really easy for me to spot check shows and have a record in case issues came up.

There was one freshman DJ that I didn't really care for, and he had a 6am slot (It's early, but it's drive time, so you actually get a ton of listeners). He kept skipping his show and as the program director, that made me mad.

I ran into him one day and asked if he had done his show that morning and he said yes, and I was like "ok great!" But I went home and listened to his mp3... and he had not been on air.

Later at school I again ran into him, chewed him out for lying to my face, and then saw him crying afterwards.

The beauty of automation.