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Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing
New submitter kju writes "The security blog of Verizon has the story of an investigation into unauthorized VPN access from China which led to unexpected findings. Investigators found invoices from a Chinese contractor who had actually done the work of the employee, who spent the day watching cat videos and visiting eBay and Facebook. The man had Fedexed his RSA token to the contractor and paid only about 1/5th of his income for the contracting service. Because he provided clean code on time, he was noted in his performance reviews to be the best programmer in the building. According to the article, the man had similar scams running with other companies."
Maybe the guy in they fired in TFS is actually the guy who takes care of their database server.
You know all the stuff from China is cheap and poor quality. Bunch of lazy communists over there... "best programmer in the building" Oh wait. Never mind.
When asked how he manages to code so well and seemingly spends so little effort on it, he said: time managing.
Turns out what he actually ment was time spent managing.
...for this contractor who produces clean code, cheaply, on time?
Just for...you know, research purposes.
Or that Slashdot still has the ability to slashdot websites.
Nothing? Nothing?!
Sir, he was a Manager!
(He paid other people less than the work was worth, he routinely breached company IT security policy, and he spent all day watching cat videos. He was perfect. Give him fifteen years and he'll be CEO.)
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
I've outsourced all my Facebooking, slashdotting and cat-video-watching, so I can spend more time programming!
Presumably the cost of the sub-contractor is deductible?
Trust The Computer, The Computer is your friend.
Good coders copy, great coders outsource.
When they realize they canned their "best programmer"
Maybe the Chinese programmer didn't do it himself either, but hired an Indian programmer for 1/5 of what he got ...
Maybe the Indian programmer hired a laid off American programmer who figured it was better than nothing.
This sounds like something Wally from "Dilbert" would do.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
it's programmers all the way down
A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head
Reminds me of: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-08-03/