Bob, you're a legend

The employee, whom Valentine calls Bob, was in his mid-40s, a "family man, inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn’t look twice at in an elevator."

But an examination of his workstation revealed hundreds of pdf invoices from a third party contractor/developer in Shenyang.

"As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. Bob spent less than one-fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him."

When the company checked his web-browsing history, a typical "work day" for Bob was: 9am, arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours, watch cat videos; 11.30am, take lunch; 1pm, eBay; 2pm-ish, Facebook updates, LinkedIn; 4.40pm-end of day, update email to management; 5pm, go home.

The evidence, said Valentine, even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area.

"Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building," wrote Valentine.