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lol @ the yahoo article le
The Story of a Man Who Outsourced His Work to China so He Could Watch Cat Videos All Day
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/story-...135701981.html
make that man CEO!
cat vidz are srs bizness
This is freaking GREAT! http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...,7296290.story
It's a worst-case scenario for most employees: There's someone in China who can do your job quickly, efficiently and for about one-fifth of your salary, and your boss absolutely loves his work.
But one U.S. software developer turned this nightmare on its head and actually benefited from outsourcing, a report says. That's because, unbeknownst to his bosses, he hired a Chinese developer to do his job, allowing him to take home impeccable performance reviews while actually spending the day watching cat videos and shopping on EBay.
According to Andrew Valentine, who works on the Verizon Risk Team investigating data breaches, the employee, who Valentine calls Bob, had pulled off the stunt for some time, allowing him to relax and earn a good salary while someone in China did his job for him.
Valentine was hired to investigate when the company, a Verizon client, saw that someone from Shenyang, China, was logging in to its computer network during every workday. The breach was traced to Bob's VPN network, but he had to be innocent, the victim of some kind of breach, the company figured. He was a quiet family man, "someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator," Valentine writes. And Bob was sitting there, working at his desk, every day. But when Valentine's staff looked more closely at Bob's computer, they ultimately found the smoking gun.
Bob had PDFs of hundreds of invoices from a third-party contractor in Shenyang for developer services. Bob had been paying the contractor $50,000 a year, while he himself made hundreds of thousands of dollars.
While the developer was working 9-to-5, Bob surfed the Web. At 9, he'd roll in and surf Reddit, watching cat videos. At 11:30 he'd grab some lunch. After lunch it was time for EBay for about an hour, when Bob migrated to Spurstalk, a sports related open forum. At 4:30, he'd email management, telling them what he had "done" during the day, and at 5, he'd go home.
"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," Valentine writes.
Verizon spokeswoman Janet Brumfield confirms the story.
Valentine says it would be easy for other companies to ensure their employes aren't outsourcing their own jobs to China.
"Organizations need to routinely and aggressively monitor their security logs," Valentine said. "This could have been prevented if the organization had simply bothered to look."
Less than 1% of data breaches are discovered by looking into security logs, he said, but 86% of the time, information about breaches can be discovered in those logs.
Suffice it to say, Bob is no longer working for the company. It's possible that he is missed, though. His performance reviews were impeccable, and his company considered him the best developer in the building.
lol @ the yahoo article le
The Story of a Man Who Outsourced His Work to China so He Could Watch Cat Videos All Day
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/story-...135701981.html
make that man CEO!
cat vidz are srs bizness
I love how it's a scam when he does it but when corporations do it, it's perfectly fine"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," Valentine writes.
loggin into spurstalk, lol
Was it Rob?
Ummmm.....when Bob migrated to Spurstalk
I would have promoted him.
So fess up. Who is it?
CC trolling you peopleBob migrated to Facebook.
nm, it would have been much funnier had it really been someone who spent all day here.
I am easily duped it seems. I just hate clicking links when the story is pasted right there.
Good troll, CC
Must be a typo I can't imagine giving it all up for cat videos...perhaps scat videos...
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