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Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:40 am
by NotAJerry
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timst ... st-moment/
Not as good as the Manti Te'o story, but still a pretty good one.
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 10:17 am
by bballfan84
NotAJerry wrote:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timst ... st-moment/
Not as good as the Manti Te'o story, but still a pretty good one.
that is amazing!!!
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 11:39 am
by JK37
Is it possible he could sue them for wrongful termination? His work didn't suffer, so what's the big deal?
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 11:50 am
by LUconn
Well, it's probably a breach in security to send your log in credentials to strangers in China of all places. Other than that, he probably taught management a very important lesson about how they should lay off all of his peers and hire this company to do their jobs for 1/5 the cost.
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:01 pm
by ALUmnus
I hope nobody studies my computer habits at work.
Am I the only one who ready that and got a little nervous?
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:10 pm
by RubberMallet
LUconn wrote:Well, it's probably a breach in security to send your log in credentials to strangers in China of all places. Other than that, he probably taught management a very important lesson about how they should lay off all of his peers and hire this company to do their jobs for 1/5 the cost.
this.
everything else was pretty much genius.
i wish some of our developers would do this.
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 17th, 2013, 12:58 pm
by NotAJerry
LUconn wrote:Well, it's probably a breach in security to send your log in credentials to strangers in China of all places. Other than that, he probably taught management a very important lesson about how they should lay off all of his peers and hire this company to do their jobs for 1/5 the cost.
A DOJ lawyer friend of mine said sending the credentials actually violates exportation laws. Otherwise, you're right, it's borderline genius.
The bad part is now a company realizes they can get programming done for 1/5 of what they're paying if they outsource it and he may end up costing a bunch more people their jobs.
And yes, yesterday may have been the single best day in the history of internet news stories.
Re: Man outsources his own job to China
Posted: January 22nd, 2013, 11:00 am
by El Scorcho
A couple of points about this story:
1. He works for a "critical US infrastructure" business. He gave China direct VPN access to critical US infrastructure. He could very well go to prison.
2. He didn't just send them his username and password. He also physically mailed his second factor authentication token to China.
This guy is a selfish idiot. He deserves whatever he gets.
By the way, if anyone is still interested, here's the original story from the Verizon Business Security Team (they discovered the breach):
http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com ... good-idea/