Outsource your own job... Is this for real?

[Lido Guy]

U.S. programmer outsources own job to China, surfs cat videos

By Ramy Inocencio, for CNN

updated 2:42 AM EST, Thu January 17, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-china/

Is this real, or did CNN just get punked?

 

[PuffyJman]

If this is true, then I have to give a tip of the hat to Bob for being creative.

 

[Ancient_Mariner]

Lazy fuck.

 

[CrushDigital]

I gotta give him credit for creativity.

As fake pissed as the Company was in the articles about this, just wait six months to when they quietly outsource the rest of their development work to China.

 

[Windward]

The frequency of you idiots posting to this forum leads me to suspect that you are all doing the same thing.

Oh wait...

 

[Shibby]

really, cat videos, Graphic!

 

[CrushDigital]

The frequency of you idiots posting to this forum leads me to suspect that you are all doing the same thing.

Oh wait...

I've outsourced my posting to this forum.

-Transcribed but not read 'Crushdigital'

 

[GnarlyItWas]

Firing him may have been a litle shortsighted, pretty smart guy.

 

[kevlar]

Firing him may have been a litle shortsighted, pretty smart guy.

I agree. Sure it should be frowned upon, but it is pretty slick n' simple.

 

[shaggy]

Lazy fuck.

Yea, a lazy fuck making sereeral hundred thousand dollars a year...... Not so bad.

"The Verizon investigation suggested Bob's entrepreneurial outsourcing spirit stretched across several companies in his area -- netting him several hundred thousand dollars a year as he paid out about $50,000 a year to his China-based ghost writers, according to hundreds of PDF invoices also discovered on his work computer."

 

[billy backstay]

"Presumably Bob's Chinese helpers were (terminated) as well."

I wouldn't presume that, not in China! They were probably immediately tasked with attempting to locate more coders like Bob to ghost write for.

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

This guy is my hero... he did to corporate america what they've been doing to us for years.. he didn't break a single law.. if he's smart he just sets up a consulting firm to do the out sourcing directly..

 

[Enigma0]

Story is true, but there's more to it. As usual.

'Bob' sent his Mainland Chinese contractor(s) a RSA key so they could use his VPN tunnel into the company's systems. Huge security exposure, both for the company and its customers and clients. Violated a contract for sure. If the company was doing defense or other government work, he may go to prison and/or get deported.

'Bob' is probably ethnic Chinese himself; mama says Cousin Lau needs a job... Trouble is, Lau may be a front for, or a member of, a PLA industrial theft group.

 

[Ancient_Mariner]

Lazy fuck.

Yea, a lazy fuck making sereeral hundred thousand dollars a year...... Not so bad.

"The Verizon investigation suggested Bob's entrepreneurial outsourcing spirit stretched across several companies in his area -- netting him several hundred thousand dollars a year as he paid out about $50,000 a year to his China-based ghost writers, according to hundreds of PDF invoices also discovered on his work computer."

Only if one measures their success and life-worth by monetary means. I don't. The rewards of success after a lot of hard work is far greater to me.

 

[shaggy]

Yea, but while you were working hard my friend, he was out Sailing or recreating in some other form. Who's to say he was not helping orphaned chinese kids with the procedes?? Not enough info. Maybe his passion was underwater basket weaving and this allowed him to pursue that dream??

 

[Shibby]

he dreamed of cats...