Managers feel comfortable seeing people working. We are accustomed to believing what we see. Management may have a hard time accepting that a talent fighting with his or her mechanic is actually doing show prep, but it can be true. Broadcasting is not school, or a factory job where we punch in our eight hours a day. Radio work is different, more like art than manufacturing.
Listeners respond to the finished product.
Our preparation is real but invisible. Carry a tape recorder or note pad at all times. Don't forget spare batteries for the recorder. If we were working as photographers, we would always have a camera ready. But we work in radio and our platform is sound.