Computer programmer fired for outsourcing his own job to China

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  1. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...puter-programmer-outsourced-job-to-China.html

    The software developer, who is in his 40s, is said to have paid a Chinese firm a fifth of his six-figure salary to do his job for him while he spent his working days surfing the internet.

    The tale emerged via a blog by an computer forensic investigator at Verizon Business, a US-based communications firm.

    Andrew Valentine claimed that his company had been contacted by another US-based firm, whom he does not name, who feared their systems were being hacked after noticing that someone in Shenyang, China was accessing the system.

    According to Mr Valentine it became apparent upon investigation that one of the company's employees had outsourced his own job, paying a Chinese firm approximately $50,000 (£31,000) from his salary to write computer programmes on his behalf.

    The employee, whom Mr Valentine describes as "inoffensive and quiet someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator", would then spend his day browsing the internet, looking at sites such as YouTube, Reddit, eBay and Facebook before sending his superiors a daily status report and going home.

    Mr Valentine continued: "Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could login under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day."

    He added: "Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about fifty grand annually."

    Mr Valentine said that the employee, who no longer works for the company, had even been praised for 'his' work.

    "The best part?" he continued. "Investigators had the opportunity to read through his performance reviews while working alongside HR.

    "For the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks. His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."

    A spokesman for Verizon Business confirmed that the story was true, but declined to provide further details.

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  2. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    lol. I've done this before. Indians though, paid them $1.50 an hour.
     
  3. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I love how people are now proud of being lazy pieces of shit. Congrats!!
     
  4. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Well, you're just being a project manager. Whenever I got too busy with stuff a few years ago I'd hire unemployed people and paid them cash, like 10 bucks an hour maybe, to do my shit for me on some consulting projects, a lot of the dirty work and billed out my normal time for that work.
     
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    umm capitalism at its finest? I pay people all the time to work for me and take a large cut of it

    I really see nothing wrong with this, aside from comprising company security I guess
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    If you want something done right . . . do it yourself.
     
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    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

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    said the dude with ocd lol

    fact is other people are better than me at many things, let them do it, I just want the money
     
  8. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Ftfy
     
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    how is this any different from subcontracting some dude to do the floors on a construction job?
     

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