Monday, May 6, 2013

Reddit and car videos preferred by man who outsourced his own job

By Cornelius Nunev


Every now and again, news outlets fall for a story by satirical news website "The Onion" but some things are so absurd, they have to be true. Take for instance, the male who outsourced his own career. He didn't fire himself to pad exec pockets, but employed a Chinese business to do his work for him on the inexpensive so he could sit and watch cat video clips while at work.

Actually outsourcing a job

Some, specifically those who labor in tedious offices trades, have likely joked about outsourcing their own career, though they don't mean typical outsourcing. Usually, outsourcing is where a business fires a bunch of employees, hires a whole bunch of new employees overseas to do the same work and pays them next to nothing. Executives pocket the cash and talk about how innovative they are.

When people joke about outsourcing their own job, they mean paying an overseas worker next to nothing to do their jobs for them. One male has actually done it, according to the BBC, and this isn't a prank by "The Onion."

One man has compensated a Chinese company to do all his software creator work. He outsourced his own career, though his identity is not known.

Cat video clips evidently that entertaining

Bob worked at a business as a software creator. The company noticed it was receiving a lot of stuff from China and decided to hire Verizon to assess the security in its network.

Bob's work at the business was considered timely and of high-quality, making him a model employee at the company. He was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year at his career until he had been found. The business figured out that he employed a software consultancy firm in China to do the work.

He received an RSA token, in other words an encrypted USB dongle, according to PC Magazine, and FedEx-shipped it to China. Verizon found the Chinese contractors were logged in while he was at his desk. What he was doing was web-surfing, looking at websites like eBay, Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook and looking at cat video clips on YouTube.

Fired from his job

Bob reportedly outsourced his own job from numerous businesses. Though he was pulling down hundreds of thousands, it was costing him about $50,000 per year to pay for the work, amounting to less than 20 percent of his annual salary, according to the BBC. Granted, now he could need some loans to get by if he's blown all his earnings on eBay goodies.

Bob was terminated, clearly.



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