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Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing

Posted by Soulskill on from the working-hard-or-hardly-working dept.

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."

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  1. Part of me says, "Good!" by Maow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a bit torn on TFS.

    On one hand, companies outsource "our" jobs with absolutely no remorse at all.

    On the other hand, ... fingers?

  2. Legality? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Aside from the security issues, is such a thing legal in the US? I mean, are you required by contract to do the work you are paid for yourself?

  3. The Onion knew it in 2009 by mseeger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Onion already knew about this back in 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

  4. I call bullshit. by tofarr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This story sets off my bullshit radar. Too many things about it don't make sense: 1.) Why would "Bob" give full access to company resources to subcontractors? Were I to subcontract a job, at the very least I would want to review everything before it was committed - especially if I was taking responsibility for it. 2.) What would happen if a colleague asked "Bob" about his code? Or as regularly happens on all but the smallest of tasks he had to collaborate closely with another fellow developer? There is a level of knowledge that you get from being part of a development process that you don't get otherwise. This sounds to me like an advertisement for outsourcing services.

  5. Of course, this is not unusual by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Take music. The CD's are produced in China to lower costs, this is legal. You buy them from China, ILLEGAL PIRACY!

    Outsource production, perfectly legal. Buy imports, pay max taxes including taxes on shipping PLUS a customs fee PLUS a fee for the shipping agency ON TOP of the shipment fee for it all... AND STILL it is often cheaper...

    The global economy is there to benefit the rich, not the poor.

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