Reddit And Car Videos Preferred By Man Who Outsourced His Own Job

By Cornelius Nunev


Normally, when one hears about outsourcing, it means that a business is going to fire a lot of people, hire new workers overseas for pennies and pay executives more. Reports of a male who outsourced his own job would normally seem outrageous but one guy actually did it.

Male outsourced his own career and it's not from The Onion

When people at the office joke about outsourcing their jobs, they do not mean it traditionally. A traditional business will make a lot of extra money for executives if they fire a bunch of people in the country and pay next to nothing in another country to have the same work done.

When people joke about outsourcing, they mean that they pay virtually nothing to get someone else to do their jobs for them. According to BBC, this is not a joke, and one male has decided to do it.

The man's identity is unknown, and he is referred to as "Bob," but he outsourced his career. As a software developer, he paid a Chinese company to do anything for pennies.

People want to see movies of cats

According to NPR, Bob's business hired Verizon to look at its virtual private network security because it saw that it was getting a ton of info from China. Bob was a software developer at the company.

It was found that Bob employed a Chinese software consultancy firm to do the work. Before he was discovered, Bob was considered a model employee. He had really high quality work and always met his work deadlines. Bob made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because of the good work.

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

Was doing it for months

Bob may need some loans to get by now that everything is said and done. He was paying about $50,000 a year for the work, which was less than 20 percent of his annual salary. He used many corporations apparently.

It was certainly anticipated that Bob got terminated.



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