Evil Genius? lol What began as a company's suspicion that its infrastructure was being hacked turned into a case of a worker outsourcing his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, according to reports that cite an investigation by Verizon's security team. The man was earning a six-figure salary. The anonymous company, identified only as a critical infrastructure firm, asked Verizon's Web security personnel to look into data that showed its virtual private network was being accessed from China — even as the employee whose credentials were used to log in from overseas was sitting in the company's offices, using his computer. As Emil Protalinski writes at The Next Web, the company's security measures included a coded fob which, the investigating team learned, a code developer had shipped to Shenyang, China, so that a company there could perform his assigned work. And it turns out that the job done in China was above par — the employee's "code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building," according to the Verizon Security Blog. Outsourced: Employee Sends Own Job To China; Surfs Web
That's actually pretty darn clever and ballsy. I mean, wrong, but still, you have to give him props being bold enough to do it! Hopefully the companies paying him will now pay the nice Chinese programmers that were actually doing this job.
They’re probably more likely to just fire their workers and outsource the entire department to China for pennies on the dollar, salary-wise.
As a result, Bob had a lot of time on his hands; in fact, during the investigation, his browsing history revealed this was his typical work day: 9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos. 11:30 a.m. – Take lunch. 1:00 p.m. – Ebay time. 2:00 – ish p.m Facebook updates – LinkedIn. 4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management. 5:00 p.m. – Go home.
