---
title: "How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/how-to-lose-your-job-unless-you-are-don.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/how-to-lose-your-job-unless-you-are-don.html"
published: "2003-05-10T18:47:00"
updated: "2003-05-10T18:47:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Don points to the Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site . Now here's a place to spend a week or two...."
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/"
---

# How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)

By Roy Osherove May 10, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Don [points](http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/spoutletex.aspx?key=2003-05-10T06:06:32Z) to the [Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site](http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/). Now here's a place to spend a week or two....

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- May 10, 2003

    ### [InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/innovasys-smarttasks-beta-download-available.html)

- May 9, 2003

    ### [The (Almost) Official .Net Tools List Gets An Upgrade](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/the-almost-official-net-tools-list-gets-an-upgrade.html)

- May 8, 2003

    ### [A Better RegEdit](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/a-better-regedit.html)


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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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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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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/