US employee outsources his job to China
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Made me chuckle today in the office today. Surely the IT admin team would have notice him going on Reddit, Youtube and Ebay all day.
We monitor our staff to make sure they are working properly, so for him to get away with it for so long was defiantly him getting lucky.
We monitor our staff to make sure they are working properly, so for him to get away with it for so long was defiantly him getting lucky.
Sounds like the guy has some IT experience - was probably tunnelling his HTTP traffic through the same VPN connection or using some other traffic masquerading system (and doesn't sound like the company way running very comprehensive IT policies in the first place).
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They said the company was moving employees towards telecommuting. I would assume he was pretending to work from home.
what if they go through a vpn?
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In my office we have 4 projectors displaying in near real time every machine in the school (staff and teachers).
To be fair it's pretty clever. Someone logs onto his pc and works away so all the activity is there, he gets paid loads and does nothing, maybe checking the odd job here and there. Pretty good job if he hadnt gotten caught. Makes you wonder why they didn't just outsource his job in the first place.
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Our staff and students (school) struggle to make sure USB devices go in a USB port, so using a VPN is far beyond their capabilities.
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That's impressive. Intelligently done as well xD
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That is pretty cool.
Are software developers paid higher in the US than over here?
Are software developers paid higher in the US than over here?
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Depends on the industry, but I think the UK/US salaries are relatively comparable.
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just read this, then saw it here 
Genius, they think he was also working for other companies, 'out-sourcing' and making a couple of hundred thousand per year
Genius, they think he was also working for other companies, 'out-sourcing' and making a couple of hundred thousand per year
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lol this is great, I would do this, I can't see why this is not accepted as normal. How is this any different than a developer paying a building company to build a house and the building company contracting a plumber or a driver. It was giving the sub contractors the unauthorised access where he went wrong, posting his 2 keyfob etc. He should have run a proxy at his house and made the guy connect through that, never would have got caught. But it is still bad faith and I would not be happy if i was an employer.
I have joked about out sourcing my own job as well. But didn't think it was actually plausible, until now.
I have joked about out sourcing my own job as well. But didn't think it was actually plausible, until now.
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