Man outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos

[littlemissmartypants]

By all accounts, Bob was a model employee, a software developer who consistently wrote clean code for his company and never missed deadlines. Then investigators found out it wasn’t Bob who was doing his job.

Turns out Bob had outsourced his work to China, paying a lowly overseas surrogate a fraction of his six-figure salary to do his 9-to-5 job. All the while, Bob sat at his desk, pretending to be busy while actually surfing the Internet, updating his Facebook page and watching cat videos.

Bob isn’t his real name, but his story is real, says Andrew Valentine of Verizon’s RISK team, which uncovered the elaborate workplace scam for a business client described only as a “U.S. critical infrastructure company."

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“As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm," Valentine says. "Bob spent less than one-fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him. Authentication was no problem, he physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average 9 to 5 work day. Investigators checked his web browsing history, and that told the whole story.”

A typical "workday" for Bob, according to investigators, looked like this:

9 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos.

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch.

1 p.m. – EBay time.

2 p.m.-ish -- Facebook updates, LinkedIn.

4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.

5 p.m. – Go home.

READ the full story at link: http://news.msn.com/us/man-outsources-his-own-job-to-china-watches-cat-videos

[leveymg]

1. Happy 2000th.

Looks like he showed the boss how to cut out the middle-man. His coworkers are going to love having more time to be with their cats.

Meow.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I thought at first that this was from the Onion!

It sounds kind of like my day, except that I'm retired and not getting paid to watch cat videos.

[ohheckyeah]

3. He'd make a great CEO.

Isn't that what they do? Pay everyone else peanuts, rake in the big bucks and get bonuses for doing a good "job"?

[onethatcares]

4. looks like he was

doing the same thing rmoney does. Ahhhhh, the american dream and he was living it.

He should be promoted to head of Citigroup or BOA.

[SirRevolutionary]

5. My new hero!

That is both depraved and hilarious at the same time Perhaps it'll be a plot for a new movie. Office Space II: Outsourced

[Agony]

6. Master of the Universe

he followed the US business model.

[Shade7M]

7. This story is a perfect example...

...of the kind of absolute lowlife shitstained cocksucking douchebags that occupy most of the "good" jobs these days.

[AZ Progressive]

8. "Ethics and Goodness is for Suckers"

Yep, that's what much of America has become nowadays.