[ale] OT: seems true story

[Richard Bronosky]

He was certainly stupid for getting caught. Allowing a Chinese company to
VPN was stupid. I would fire someone for that. But, if I found out a
developer was outsourcing work and it caused no inconveniences... I'd
promote him to manager and ask him to manager as many contractors as he
could while maintaining the quality of service his internal customers have
been receiving and raving about.

Every time I've outsourced to contractors, my customers have been
disappointed compared to our FTE devs.

Also, why ship your key fob to China? Just point a webcam at it. That is a
great way to deal with the situation where you are forced to carry multiple
key fobs!

This story is almost awesome, but falls into the sad category.
On Jan 16, 2013 8:23 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think he was clever, but lazy - if he had set up a system at home to
> get the stuff from China, and post it into the corporate system from his
> house, he'd never have been found out.  And if he'd made the effort to
> appear active at work (or working remotely), there would have been no
> counter-evidence
>
> Pete Hardie
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
> lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> I love it. As to the question of how he could 'work' multiple jobs,
>> surely he could have had a work from home opportunity as well.
>>
>> --
>> From my iPhone
>> Geoffrey Myers
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/16/verizon-finds-developer-outsourced-his-work-to-china-so-he-could-surf-reddit-and-watch-cat-videos/
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