US employee outsources his job to China
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Soldato
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I think this was awesome.
I read he was doing the same with other jobs. lol
I read he was doing the same with other jobs. lol
What's to stop the company cutting out the middle man and giving the job straight to the Chinese firm for a 5th of the money? You should just be happy with your well paid job, it might not always be there.
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As shown a few years back...
Now I wonder if this was the inspiration?
Now I wonder if this was the inspiration?
This, or just pass the work to me directly and i'll be logged in. I would never let anyone just log onto my work machine without me knowing what was being done on it. I don't trust anyone enough. That was his downfall
This guy had the right idea...outsourced his job
Somebody may have posted this already....if not, somewhat of genius thing to do if you had the bank roll to do it in the first place:
A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.
Full story below!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
Somebody may have posted this already....if not, somewhat of genius thing to do if you had the bank roll to do it in the first place:
A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.
Full story below!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
damn!!I liked this article as I'm basically doing it for a mate in the UK - he sends me work to do that arrives and goes out in his name and I charge him in $ what he charges his client in £ for doing it. Client is none the wiser, he gets a bit of cash for being the contact point and I get a good deal for doing the work. Simples!
I guess it is if they employed him on a permanant contract. It's not like a contractor that has a right of substitution clause in the contract that allows other people to do the work.
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Why do people think its possibly not fraud, you sign confidentiality and agree to security stuff in a contract for a job and he would almost certainly have broken every part of his contract.
AS for just outsourcing directly, they may well do, he may have cost people their jobs with bosses who were worried about the potential cost/quality of work done abroad now deciding to save 5/6th's of their costs and firing hundreds of people.
In reality, paying some low level company to do one mans job is likely a smaller company and people who are paid less. When you want to outsource an entire operation you need a company that is secure, likely much bigger, with much higher costs, and a lot of companies end up paying a few people to go and keep an eye on/manage offices. Depends entirely on what they are doing, it could still be vastly cheaper, it could get to the point there is no saving.
There are also millions of jobs that can't be outsourced, many companies do work with people like military/other things were security is a huge concern and they'd never go with a company who outsourced the work to anywhere let alone China.
its funny, and I kinda hope the guy got away with it, but its risky as hell, and I wouldn't be surprised if the company ends up taking him to court over breaking his contract.
Theres a huge difference between this and asking a builder to do work who hires a subcontractor when you expect this, its common practice and there won't be many jobs where a contract gets signed with security stipulations.
AS for just outsourcing directly, they may well do, he may have cost people their jobs with bosses who were worried about the potential cost/quality of work done abroad now deciding to save 5/6th's of their costs and firing hundreds of people.
In reality, paying some low level company to do one mans job is likely a smaller company and people who are paid less. When you want to outsource an entire operation you need a company that is secure, likely much bigger, with much higher costs, and a lot of companies end up paying a few people to go and keep an eye on/manage offices. Depends entirely on what they are doing, it could still be vastly cheaper, it could get to the point there is no saving.
There are also millions of jobs that can't be outsourced, many companies do work with people like military/other things were security is a huge concern and they'd never go with a company who outsourced the work to anywhere let alone China.
its funny, and I kinda hope the guy got away with it, but its risky as hell, and I wouldn't be surprised if the company ends up taking him to court over breaking his contract.
Theres a huge difference between this and asking a builder to do work who hires a subcontractor when you expect this, its common practice and there won't be many jobs where a contract gets signed with security stipulations.
I guess because it was a breach of security, allowing unauthorised and unfettered access to his company's network.
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Indeed. It would be breach of contract or misrepresentation.
It's a bit like if the company bought some burgers from Tesco, expecting them to be made of beef...