The Story of a Man Who Outsourced His Work to China so He Could Watch Cat Videos All Day – Yahoo! Finance
by pinkagendist
A Verizon case study recently revealed that some people will go through great lengths in order to be able to watch cat videos all day.
We first heard about it on TNW.
The study documents the scam of a developer, who is referred to as Bob. He worked at a “critical infrastructure” company in the U.S. and started outsourcing his work to China underneath his company’s nose, and would only pay those people less than one fifth of his six-figure salary.
Here’s how it was possible.
I’d be curious how much outsourcing the “critical infrastructure’ company was doing that went unnoticed by the media.
Do what I say, not what I do
Reblogged this on cashzilla.
Seem legit.
Haha! I think we must give the dude a 4 star for thinking out of the box, he must love cat videos to be willing to pay someone to do the work for him.
Six figures to watch cat videos all day. I seriously need to rethink my career.
me too… I’m self-employed at five figures working monday to monday, sometimes 14 hours a day. Haven’t had a real day off in years.
Kinda genius, really…
I know, I’m hugely jealous!
Oh this was funny but kind of sad as well. I spend a lot of my time online as well but if watching cat videos was /all/ I did I’d be bored out of my brain.
I’m still trying to figure out how to outsource my job
-grin- What? And lose all that lovely tension and stress? Nah.
I wonder if the outsourcer outsourced to another chinese worker for even less!
And the company didn’t notice any difference in the quality of his work. Did they fire him and hire the Chinese guy at half the salary? Major raise for him, major cut for the company, everyone goes home happy. Except for Cat Boy, who ought to be out of a job for pulling that stunt.