U.S. Employee Outsourced

U.S. Employee Outsourced His Job to China,

Nowadays, sneaking in a personal call or quick browse through Facebook during work is typical on-the-job behavior. But what if you abandoned work completely and outsourced your job to, say, China?

That's precisely what one U.S. developer got away with last year, paying a Chinese consulting firm 20% of his six-figure salary to do his job. Referred to as "Bob" in a case study outlined by Verizon's security team, the employee worked for a U.S.-based critical-infrastructure company, and was versed in C++, Java, Python, Ruby, as well as other programming languages.

Despite his skills, however, Bob didn't do any work. Here's how a typical day went for him:

9:00 a.m. - Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos.
11:30 a.m. - Take lunch
1:00 p.m. - Ebay time
2:00 p.m. - Facebook updates, LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. - End-of-day update email to management
5:00 p.m. - Go home