Software developer outsources his job to China, makes good money goofing off all day

In this economy you'd think there aren't many six-figure jobs that let you wander aimlessly throughout the web all day between cat videos and catching up with social networks. And you'd be right. But one software developer in his 40s...

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Classy...maybe they should outsource his prison time to China?

Uh Scam? No. Deceitful yes, but not a scam. If he opened up a bunch of big security holes by allowing these consulting firms access I could see why he'd be in trouble, but otherwise I'd expect the worst that could happen to him would be losing his 'job'. Verizon was receiving everything they paid for, and high quality work, by the sound of it.

Personally, I'd never outsource my job to China. I'd pick India for sure.

His jig is up!

Busted....

This sounds like something George Costanza would do.

I completely agree with this. I applaud the guy for thinking outside of the box.

Other than sending his RSA security token to someone else and allowing them to log in as him (probably covered by basic fraud and a serious violation of his employment security agreements)... And that he was representing the work as his own, which could potentially cause massive havoc and damages if an issue arose that needed immediate attention, and he would not be able to take care of the situation personally... The concept itself wasn't flawed, so much as the dishonest implementation of it.

Plus, the company was probably just irritated that it could have gotten 5 times the excellent work for that one guy's salary, with much lower benefits overhead. Heh.

I haven't had a chance to meet this young man but boy does he have Straight to Upper Management written all over him.

Well, when a company outsources the job, they give the security clearance and do the background check on the company they are hiring. When they hire Bob the Slacker, they do the checks on him. That's why I'd bet he'll get fired. I agree, he wasn't scamming them, but depending on the type of job he had, his employer might be a bit upset he was sharing security credentials.

nategatorc:
"I haven't had a chance to meet this young man but boy does he have Straight to Upper Management written all over him."

Naga...Naga....Not-gonna work here anymore, anyway.

Why in the world is Verizon upset with him for doing exactly what their and every member of upper management does to the ground workers every day? (With the exception of sending their security code to China.)

Great upper level management potential.

Yup they are all up in arms about this yet thousands of Manufacturing jobs are outsourced to China every single day.

The man is just doing it on a smaller scale lol

What everyone fails to read is that it wasn't Verizon who hired him but rather a company that hired Verizon to audit the VPN logs whether Verizon was the company's service provider or what not, who knows.

Nah!!!

if he outsourced his job to me, I'll be glad.

It happens more often here in our country...

Lots of developers do it, just more carefully, without security compromises like this.

We need more guys like him, we would have so many more job opportunities.