Ask anyone on this board who either is currently employed, or used to work in the business, and they will back me up when I say that a good number of hard working people end up losing their jobs for no good reason at all.
Yes, a crazy, unstable business with countless crazy, unstable scenarios. As the narrator used to say on a famous 60s tv show: "There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This is one of them." There are (at least) 8 million horror stories about radio, and we all have several.