Sunday, October 13, 2013

Reddit And Car Videos Preferred By Man Who Outsourced His Own Job

By Cornelius Nunev


From time to time, news outlets fall for a story by satirical news site "The Onion" but some things are so absurd, they have to be true. Take for example, the man who outsourced his own career. He didn't fire himself to pad executive pockets, but employed a Chinese business to do his work for him on the inexpensive so he could sit and watch kitty movies while at work.

Not a prank

Some, particularly those who labor in tedious offices trades, have likely joked about outsourcing their own career, though they do not mean typical outsourcing. Normally, outsourcing is where a company fires a lot of workers, hires a whole bunch of brand new workers overseas to do the same work and pays them next to nothing. Executives pocket the cash and talk about how innovative they are.

When people joke about outsourcing, they mean that they pay virtually nothing to get somebody else to do their jobs for them. According to BBC, this is not a joke, and one male has decided to do it.

One male has paid a Chinese business to do all his software creator work. He outsourced his own job, though his identity is not known.

Looking at cat movies

Bob worked at a company as a software developer. The company noticed it was receiving a lot of stuff from China and decided to hire Verizon to assess the security in its network.

What they eventually found was that Bob, whoever he is, had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang, China, to work on his projects. He was by all accounts, until the discovery, a model employee, one of the very best in the building and holding down a salary of several hundred thousand dollars per year. "His" work was timely and of high-quality.

During work hours, Bob was surfing the internet, looking at cat videos and purchasing things on EBay. Verizon discovered Chinese contractors logged in when he was at work. He used an RSA token, according to PC Magazine.

Business not happy about this

Bob reportedly outsourced his own job from several businesses. Though he was pulling down hundreds of thousands, it was costing him about $50,000 per year to cover the work, amounting to less than 20 percent of his annual salary, according to the BBC. Granted, now he could need some loans to get by if he's blown all his earnings on eBay goodies.

Bob was terminated, definitely.



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