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January 17, 2013 02:58 pm GMT
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U.S. Employee Outsourced His Job to China, Watched Cat Videos Instead
Nowadays, sneaking in a personal call or quick browse through Facebook during work is typical on-the-job behavior. But what if you abandoned work completely and outsourced your job to, say, China?
That's precisely what one U.S. developer got away with last year, paying a Chinese consulting firm 20% of his six-figure salary to do his job. Referred to as "Bob" in a case study outlined by Verizon's security team, the employee worked for a U.S.-based critical-infrastructure company, and was versed in C++, Java, Python, Ruby, as well as other programming languages.
Despite his skills, however, Bob didn't do any work. Here's how a typical day went for him:
9:00 a.m. - Arrive and surf Re…
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