Man Outsourced His Own Job To Watch Cat Videos, Surf Ebay

By Cornelius Nunev


From time to time, news outlets fall for a story by satirical news site "The Onion" but several things are so preposterous, they have to be true. Take for example, the male who outsourced his own job. He didn't fire himself to pad exec pockets, but employed a Chinese company to do his work for him on the affordable so he could sit and watch cat video clips while at work.

Not a prank

Some, particularly those who labor in tedious offices trades, have likely joked about outsourcing their own job, though they don't mean typical outsourcing. Typically, outsourcing is where a company fires a bunch of workers, hires a whole bunch of new workers overseas to do the same work and pays them next to nothing. Executives pocket the cash and talk about how innovative they are.

When people joke about outsourcing their own career, they mean paying an overseas worker next to nothing to do their jobs for them. One man has actually done it, according to the BBC, and it is not a prank by "The Onion."

One male has paid a Chinese business to do all his software developer work. He outsourced his own job, though his identity is not known.

Looking at cat video clips

According to NPR, Bob's company employed Verizon to look at its virtual private network security because it saw that it was getting a lot of data from China. Bob was a software developer at the company.

What they eventually found was that Bob, whoever he is, had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang, China, to work on his projects. He was by all accounts, until the discovery, a model employee, one of the very best in the building and holding down a salary of several hundred thousand dollars per year. "His" work was timely and of high-quality.

During work hours, Bob was surfing the internet, looking at kitty movies and getting things on EBay. Verizon discovered Chinese contractors logged in when he was at work. He used an RSA token, according to PC Magazine.

Done for some time

Bob might require some loans to get by now that everything is said and done. He was paying about $50,000 a year for the work, which was less than 20 percent of his annual salary. He used many corporations apparently.

Bob, obviously, has been terminated.




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