Outsourced: Employee Sends Own Job To China; Surfs Web

[chaya]

What began as a company's suspicion that its infrastructure was being hacked turned into a case of a worker outsourcing his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, according to reports that cite an investigation by Verizon's security team. The man was earning a six-figure salaryThe anonymous company, identified only as a critical infrastructure firm

Comments

[perthro]

This is one of those times when I am alllll about seeing if those programmer dudes want a green card, for free, and a guaranteed job in that position (for more pay than this douche was giving them!). Why? Because if they did the work better, by all fucking means. Or just let them stay there and telecommute like they have been. We have Skype for a reason.

All this just to watch cat videos.

[ponyboy]

+1

[tifa]

This.

[crossfire]

This article caused quite a stir in our internal memegen. :D

[squeeful]

I've known or of a few people who have done similar, outsourcing part of their coding job. It wasn't so they could watch cat videos, but because they didn't want to/couldn't work 100 hour weeks.

[chaya]

Did they have an NDA and a fob?

[fluorescenta]

what's a fob? I know what a NDA is but not fob....

never mind just saw someone's comment below

[mary_pickforded]

[chaya]

If he'd outsourced to someplace less flag-raising than China, then I'd have to agree.

[kitanabychoice]

I read this yesterday and was like... "must be nice." I guess. He was making a killing doing that, I bet.