Gives a whole new meaning to the idea of getting your head down!
Depending on your view of life this guy is either the cleverest or most despicable person that you will hear mentioned this week! This man was hired by a software firm as a developer working from home. He then paid a company in China to do his work for him!! Brassy, I?ll give him that.
This guy is not being named for and neither is the company, I?m guessing for fear of?embarrassment?on the company?s part. It?s not known how long he ran this scam for it was profitable.
The company in question called Verizon asking?for?an audit as they suspected a security breach in their firm. Apparently they wanted some ?anomalous activity? on their Virtual Private Network (VPN) investigated. The company had slowly been moving towards a more telecommuting culture and had started to allow developers to work from home.
They then discovered an open and active VPN?connection?between Shenyang and the employees workstation that had been running for months and so Verizon were called in to investigate.
What they found was that this software developer outsourced his workload to a company in Shenyang, China and they did all the work for him for, and this is the genius bit, less than a fifth of his annual six figure salary!!
And what did he do now that he had all this free time? He watched?videos?of cats and surfed Reddit and eBay! Not only that but there has been evidence found that he was employed by a number of firms and he did the same thing to each of them. Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, revealed:
?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.?
The employee no longer worked at the firm but, I?m going to go out on a limb and say that he?s got enough to keep the wolves from the door. So is this guy a genius or is he exploiting the good Chinese people? You decide!
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