Star Developer Outsources His Own Job....

[Minnie]

...to China.

I probably shouldn't laugh but my bad, I chuckled. I'm trying to see if I can find anything that states this happened for certain sure but the story is interesting, nonetheless.

Link

There's a story floating around the internet that's so good that it can't be true – but I really, really want it to be. According to a Verizon security blog, a developer employed by an American company has been caught outsourcing his own job to China – giving him much-needed extra time to watch YouTube videos about cats.


The Register reports that the wheeze was discovered when an American critical infrastructure company hired Verizon to set up an internet system that would allow staff to work from home. Verizon discovered that the traffic logs “showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, ‘Bob’”. At first they suspected some malware was to blame and so decided to study Bob’s computer habits to find out the source. To their surprise, the real reason why someone was logging on from China was far more benign, malign and brilliant:


Verizon investigators found that [Bob] had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang to do his programming work for him, and had FedExed them his two-factor authentication token so they could log into his account. He was paying them a fifth of his six-figure salary to do the work and spent the rest of his time on other activities.

Apparently this was how he spent his time:

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time
2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management
5:00 p.m. – Go home

[BlackEleven]

2.5 hours everyday on Facebook and LinkedIn? That sounds awful. I'd rather just do my job...

[Burninator]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=123646

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Burninator

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=123646

Yes, I know. I posted this in the afternoon though, and came back in the evening to find it reposted at a later time. I figured this one would just die a natural death or the mods would delete since it ended up being a double up.