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Outsourcing his own job
« on: January 20, 2013, 04:42:20 AM »
WHICH MERELY DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE OF HIS "WORK":
Software developer Bob outsources own job and whiles away shifts on cat videos : Verizon's hunt for firm's mysterious hacker exposes 'top worker' at firm who let Chinese consultants log on to do his daily work (Caroline Davies, 1/17/13, guardian.co.uk)


    When a routine security check by a US-based company showed someone was repeatedly logging on to their computer system from China, it naturally sent alarm bells ringing. Hackers were suspected and telecoms experts were called in.

    It was only after a thorough investigation that it was revealed that the culprit was not a hacker, but "Bob" (not his real name), an "inoffensive and quiet" family man and the company's top-performing programmer, who could be seen toiling at his desk day after day and staring diligently at his monitor.

    For Bob had come up with the idea of outsourcing his own job - to China. So, while a Chinese consulting firm got on with the job he was paid to do, on less than one-fifth of his salary, he whiled away his working day surfing Reddit, eBay and Facebook.

One hopes we aren't being catfished, but, regardless, it reflects what we know to be true: the most valuable white collar employee is just as fungible as his blue collar co-worker.

http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2013/01/which_merely_demonstrates_the_.html

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Re: Outsourcing his own job
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2013, 10:03:22 AM »
WHICH MERELY DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE OF HIS "WORK":


That is hilarious and sad.

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Re: Outsourcing his own job
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2013, 01:32:56 PM »
One hopes we aren't being catfished, but, regardless, it reflects what we know to be true: the most valuable white collar employee is just as fungible as his blue collar co-worker.

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"catfished"?

I have never seen that expression before. what does it mean?

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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