Man outsources his own job to China

[moe.ron]

I think I found my new hero. too bad he got caught and fired. I have a feeling the company decided to cut the middle man (him) and went straight to the source.

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.

What did those other "activities" consist of? Apparently it was:
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

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ti...eatest-moment/

[AGDee]

The article I read said that he also had other side contract jobs and did the same thing with those, so he was doing this for several companies at once! People in one of my linked in groups think he should be in management...

[StealthMode]

That's so.....that's so....

I want to say "dishonest, horrible, etc." but all I can think is "brilliant."

[MysticCat]

What in the world does this sentence mean:

To their surprise, the real reason why someone was logging on from China was far more benign, malign and brilliant.

Malign? Benign and malign?

[dreamseeker]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

What in the world does this sentence mean:


Malign? Benign and malign?

LOL. It hurt my eyes too.

I am sooo going to reddit now to read the comments. Maybe he will even comment. Ha!

[moe.ron]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The article I read said that he also had other side contract jobs and did the same thing with those, so he was doing this for several companies at once! People in one of my linked in groups think he should be in management...

He definitely needs to be hired as management.