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Verizon Developer Paid 250K A Year And He Outsourced His Work To Chinese For 50K

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  1. NetGeek

    NetGeek Occupying Sherdog

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    I saw this story and its so ridiculous its sounds like something published from the Onion. Basically Verizon hired this guy and paid him a lot of money, he hired a developer in China and paid him 50K so he could watch cat videos and sell stuff on Ebay.

    This was his daily schedule.


    9:00 a.m.
     
    NetGeek, Jan 16, 2013
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  2. Dogstarman

    Dogstarman Old man jiu jitsu

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    Dude knows what's up. To bad he got caught, he had a sweet gig going.
     
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  3. Oblivian

    Oblivian Aging Platinum Member

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    Obviously there is some issue with it, but I don't really have that big of a problem with the concept. They were paying him $250k a year for results - he got them satisfactory results.
     
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  4. Rob Battisti

    Rob Battisti HR for HR

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    If anything he's 10x smarter than the company itself. His mistake was getting caught.
     
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  5. NetGeek

    NetGeek Occupying Sherdog

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    I really thought this was funny because it sounds like the average Sherdogger.:)
     
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  6. Phreaxer

    Phreaxer Black Belt

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    I can't decide if this dude was a genius or an idiot...
     
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  7. A.A. Riggs

    A.A. Riggs sweet ... sweet meat!

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    Dude lived the dream. I am reminded of Homer's bid for sanitation jingle.
     
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  8. PalharesIsHulk**

    PalharesIsHulk** Blue Belt

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    That guy was probably a Sherdogger.
     
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  9. Phreaxer

    Phreaxer Black Belt

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    nah. Sherdogger's don't watch "cat" videos... unless that was a code word... :redface:
     
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  10. BAM

    BAM Back in the saddle again

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    ebank got pwnt
     
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  11. youandme

    youandme All on the DL.

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    Good on him, stickin it to the man.
     
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  12. tsuifuku

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    Only potential problem I see for him is that he gave unauthorized access to the company's VPN which might be legally actionable.
     
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  13. PolishHeadlock

    PolishHeadlock Putin Belt Banned

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    Haha true.

    The Chinese got 50k in consulting fees and 100 million in patent thefts
     
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  14. RetiredWisFighter

    RetiredWisFighter Amateur Fighter

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    As far as this guy, pure genius.
     
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  15. UpaLoompa

    UpaLoompa Grand Quasiprophet of the Sakaran Apocolyps

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    Does sound like an Onion story.
    Funny. I'm sure Verizon is fine using the exact same practices.
     
    UpaLoompa, Jan 16, 2013
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  16. Eisenkarl

    Eisenkarl Guest

    In my last job I earned quite a lot and had pretty much the same schedule, except I didn't have to outsource anything because I didn't have anything to do.
    And I certainly wasn't the only one, there were guys making way more, doing shit all day.
     
    Eisenkarl, Jan 16, 2013
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  17. Goodfoot

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    now there's gonna be a rush of "programmers" doing this. Hell i wish i thought of this!
     
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  18. Felya

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    I've been doing this for over 6 months now.
     
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  19. RoninJin

    RoninJin Holla At Me If You Like My Avatar

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    why cat videos....lol
     
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  20. Shane-O-Mac

    Shane-O-Mac Haha Trump lost

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    My only real problem with this is that a man was sitting in a cubicle somewhere watching cat videos.
     
    Shane-O-Mac, Jan 16, 2013
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