US employee ‘outsourced job to China’

A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.

The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his working days surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and Ebay.

He reportedly paid a just a fifth of his six figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.

Operator Verizon says the scam came to light after the US firm asked for an audit suspecting a security breach.

According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the company had discovered of an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang to the employees workstation.

Further investigation into the employee’s computer revealed hundreds of PDF documents of in voices from the Shenyang contractor.

“Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (£31,270) annually,” Mr Valentine said.

The employee now no longer works for Verizon.

This has to be one of the strangest and most surprising stories I’ve come across, we all know of the vast amount of jobs that are outsourced by companies each year, but this is the first I’ve heard of an employee doing it themselves.

It’s hard to work out whether this employee is very clever or very stupid, clever because he managed to outsource his job for a fraction of his salary and was free to spend his day watching cats play the piano, or stupid because he was bound to get found out and now subsequently doesn’t have a job.

Also when he tries to get another one what’s he going to say when they asked and why were you sacked by Verizon?

There’s always a furore when a company announces it plans to outsource jobs, but when you read stories like this can you blame them, I think Verizon should track down the individuals who were actually doing the work and hire them, they’ll save a lot of money and know that they won’t have to worry about employees spending their days bidding for other people’s unwanted crap on Ebay.