Thursday, January 17, 2013

Programmer Outsources Own Job to China, Surfs Net

An enterprising programmer decided to hire a Chinese company to do his work for him, at the cost of about a fifth of his salary, so that he could spend his time surfing the internet:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/01/developer-outsources-his-own-job-to-china-watches-cat-videos-instead.html

He apparently made several hundred thousand dollars per year by "working" this way. I don't know why he was fired, when he appears to be management material. He should have probably just used a more secure arrangement to avoid discovery.

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