- Technical problems we all secretly predicted
- Watching the carefully thought out newsroom election night game plan quickly disintegrate
- Being assigned to a new candidate at the last second after conducting weeks of research on another one
- Wondering what genius decided to assign several crews to work under tight deadlines on the same laptop editor
- Watching normally cordial co-workers turn on each other when things really start to fall apart
- Trying to be first on air with a winning candidate only to learn the station has no plans to take me live until next week
- The growing whispers that the others stations whipped us
- Trying to figure out how to get 20 employees at a hotel convention room back to the station in only two vehicles
- Feeling lucky no one chose me to stake out until 1am the big losing candidate hiding behind a closed door
- Getting a memo in my mailbox praising the night’s efforts as if all went perfectly as planned