Jekke Bladt writes: "A pretty clear indication that this job was not going to be like other jobs came on the very first day when I was given my first task. It was, 'Download a copy of nUnit, install it, put it through its paces, and report back.' Maybe this is typical for some people, but I was a consultant for ten years. In my experience, a typical first task is, 'We have seventeen days before we go into the quiet period before our IPO. We need you to build a stock quote and index reporting system for our website using the Reuters feeds.' [..] one downside of this unusual request was that I was expected to vet a piece of unit testing software on day one -- before I'd written any code that could be tested."