Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing 457
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."
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Cheap Chinese Crap (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
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.
So, anybody got contact details... (Score:5, Funny)
...for this contractor who produces clean code, cheaply, on time?
Just for...you know, research purposes.
Re:Error establishing a database connection (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But of course (Score:5, Funny)
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.)
Idiot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Legality? (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably the cost of the sub-contractor is deductible?
In the words of Steve Jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Monday is going to suck... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Part of me says, "Good!" (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the Chinese programmer didn't do it himself either, but hired an Indian programmer for 1/5 of what he got ...
Re:Part of me says, "Good!" (Score:5, Funny)
UMAD? employer's just jelly. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Part of me says, "Good!" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Part of me says, "Good!" (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-08-03/ [dilbert.com]