The Smartest Employee Ever

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Read the story below. Personally, I think there is absolutely no way this guy should have been fired. I think it is brilliant. Hell, I would put him in charge of outsourcing other people's jobs and getting the work done better and cheaper.

Ok, there is some lying involved, but really performance is what I would care about the most, and this guy seems to have been performing well.

Fire him? Hell no, give him a raise (to hire more oDesk workers).



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JAN 16, 2013 7:19 AM57,298 150

Developer Sacked for Outsourcing His Entire Job to China

 Jamie Condliffe
The truly lazy are often the most creative. Like this developer, who was caught outsourcing his entire job to China so that he could spend his time at work... not working.
The ruse—highlighted in a Verizon case study—was carried out by an employee called "Bob" who worked at an anonymous "critical infrastructure company". The trick was only spotted when someone noticed suspicious activity on the company's VPN log. The report explains:
"We received a request from a US-based company asking for our help in understanding some anomalous activity that they were witnessing in their VPN logs. Plainly stated, the VPN logs showed [Bob] logged in from China, yet the employee is right there, sitting at his desk, staring into his monitor."
While Bob apparently received glowing performance reviews, all of his development work was being carried out from China. In fact, he pulled off the same scam across multiple companies concurrently, earning "several hundred thousand dollars a year".
Further investigation revealed a typical day's work for Bob included: reading Reddit for two hours, shopping on eBay for an hour, browsing Facebook for two hours, and checking LinkedIn for a further two. Looks like he'll be spending more time on LinkedIn from now on. [Verizon viaThe Inquirer]

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