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title: "Envy - Cursed be thy name!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/27/envy-cursed-be-thy-name.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/4/27/envy-cursed-be-thy-name.html"
published: "2003-04-27T18:23:00"
updated: "2003-04-27T18:23:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Is it okay to envy Chris Sells on his post ? It should be. Would anyone not want to work for a company that cherishes its employees as much as MSFT? Hell - I'd work there as QA just to get started (Although i hear…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Envy - Cursed be thy name!

By Roy Osherove April 27, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Is it okay to envy [Chris Sells on his post](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#myFirstWeekAtMs)? It should be. Would anyone **not** want to work for a company that cherishes its employees as much as MSFT? Hell - I'd work there as QA just to get started (Although i hear QA'ing there is also pretty darn cool too!)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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