"We're going to convert these COBOL applications to C#, and you need to test that the new application works exactly the same, including the same bugs as the old application.""Ok, where's the specifications and test reports of the old COBOL applications?""They were lost to time, we don't know where they are.""Ok, so how are the developers going to write the C# code?""They're going to read the COBOL scripts and recreate them into C#, we advise you do the same."
Cue me spending a month trying to decypher the COBOL gobblediremoved into inputs and outputs, and write testcases based on that. And after that month was up, and I had delivered my testcases, they told me that my services were no longer needed.
He'll end up in trump's cabinet