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Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

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Desmond
Desmond Original post #1
Jan 18, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Not sure if this is the right section.

I came across this article on Verizon's Security blog about an employee who outsourced his entire job to China while spending his days websurfing.

According to the blog, an investigation into an unauthorized VPN access from China had lead to a revelation that one of their programmers had outsourced his entire job to a contractor in China. The investigators found invoices from the contractor who had being working on the employees project, while the employee spent his days websurfing. The employee had sent his VPN token to China via FedEx and paid less than 1/5th of his income to the contractor. The contractor ensured timely delivery of code. The code was clean and the employee was recognized as the best programmer in the office.

Evidence also suggested that he had been running a similar schemes across various companies in the area.

His name and fate are not known.

Source

So, is it really legal to outsource your own job to someone else, if it were non critical and gets your job done?

I live in India, where do I outsource my job to? :(
NoasArcAngel
Jan 18, 2013 at 9:34 AM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

I came across this article on Verizon's Security blog about an employee who outsourced his entire job to China while spending his days websurfing.

According to the blog, an investigation into an unauthorized VPN access from China had lead to a revelation that one of their programmers had outsourced his entire job to a contractor in China. The investigators found invoices from the contractor who had being working on the employees project, while the employee spent his days websurfing. The employee had sent his VPN token to China via FedEx and paid less than 1/5th of his income to the contractor. The contractor ensured timely delivery of code. The code was clean and the employee was recognized as the best programmer in the office.

Evidence also suggested that he had been running a similar scams across various companies in the area.

His name and fate are not known.

Source

I live in India, where do I outsource my job to? :(

well he had good brains he started doing this... you really want to outsource your job to china? China? CHINA?

no wonder they call c**** a superpower now.... the world is dependent on c**** dont make yourself too...
Desmond
Desmond #3
Jan 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

well he had good brains he started doing this... you really want to outsource your job to china? China? CHINA?

no wonder they call c**** a superpower now.... the world is dependent on c**** dont make yourself too...

Can't really outsource to China, I don't have the monies...yet.

I bet there a lot of minor companies in India as well. Who do you think does your thesis' and final year projects?
amjath
amjath #4
Jan 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

I think he must be fired according to data security. But this guy very smart to get fame IMO.
anirbandd
Jan 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

Can't really outsource to China, I don't have the monies...yet.

I bet there a lot of minor companies in India as well. Who do you think does your thesis' and final year projects?

you mean people outsource these simple things to china?? no wonder the country is going downhill.
warfreak
Jan 18, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

He wasn't smart enough for letting the contractor use his VPN connection. These things could be easily traced during audit.
He could have avoided getting caught had he tunneled the traffic through his home computer. Plenty of ways to do that.
Skud
Skud #7
Jan 18, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

If companies can outsource, why can't an individual? Wholeheartedly support that guy.

If companies can outsource, why can't an individual? Wholeheartedly support that guy.
G
Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

I wonder why he didn't outsource to india :chinscratch:
avinandan012
Jan 18, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

Who do you think does your thesis' and final year projects?

I did myself.

If companies can outsource, why can't an individual? Wholeheartedly support that guy.

If companies can outsource, why can't an individual? Wholeheartedly support that guy.

agreed. They should have promoted the guy.

I wonder why he didn't outsource to india :chinscratch:

China is cheaper
Faun
Faun #10
Jan 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

I wonder why he didn't outsource to india :chinscratch:

We all know India eggucation.
pranav0091
Jan 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

agreed. They should have promoted the guy.

There are security concerns. The guy signed a non-disclosure agreement when he got the job and he is breaking it by outsourcing his work. That alone is enough to fire him and even sue him.
amjath
amjath #12
Jan 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

There are security concerns. The guy signed a non-disclosure agreement when he got the job and he is breaking it by outsourcing his work. That alone is enough to fire him and even sue him.

Actually they ll fire him and they ll not provide him the final settlement.
Desmond
Desmond #13
Jan 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

you mean people outsource these simple things to china?? no wonder the country is going downhill.

Not china, but some people get these done from other local contractors. I know many of my friends who got their final year projects done from third party contractors.
anirbandd
anirbandd #14
Jan 18, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Re: [WTF news] Verizon employee outsources his entire job to China

Not china, but some people get these done from other local contractors. I know many of my friends who got their final year projects done from third party contractors.

i see. and when these enggs get out of college, they gripe about not getting a job.
lol their jobs just got outsourced ;)
Vyom
Vyom #15
Jan 18, 2013 at 9:05 PM
Well, the guy was smart enough to outsource his entire job but not geek enough to think about the fact that he can get caught during an audit.
I guess many more would learn from his mistake, and outsource their work "in a right way" :rofl: