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US Man pays Chinese company to do his job!

[Deleted User] · 2013-01-16 22:58:59

Clever or stupid! Most people are just happy to have a job, rather than risk it like this. His boss might cop on and send all the jobs to China.

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16-01-2013 11:58pm

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.

Clever or stupid! Most people are just happy to have a job, rather than risk it like this.
His boss might cop on and send all the jobs to China.

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chinese takeaway

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#2 17-01-2013 12:00am
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Never heard of such a thing.

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#3 17-01-2013 12:06am
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Friend of mine used to outsource php to India. Cost him about a tenner to wow his boss at his mad php skillz!

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#4 17-01-2013 12:11am
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kneemos wrote: »

Never heard of such a thing.

You have now!

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#5 17-01-2013 12:15am
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Further investigation found that the enterprising Bob had actually taken jobs with other firms and had outsourced that work too, netting him hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit

He had several of these 'jobs' apparently.

Thinking outside the box at it's finest.

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#6 17-01-2013 12:17am
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wasent there already a thread on this today

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#7 17-01-2013 12:19am
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wasent there already a thread on this today

Yes, the OP outsourced someone to post on his behalf...

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#8 17-01-2013 12:21am
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Deleted User wrote: »

Clever or stupid! Most people are just happy to have a job, rather than risk it like this.
His boss might cop on and send all the jobs to China.

So let me get this right if Employer does it they get tax breaks and huge profits, if the employee does it he gets the chop. I'm just sorry I can't do it in my business would be great.

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#9 17-01-2013 12:33am
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Theres a thread on this already.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056856739

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#10 17-01-2013 12:48am
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Software developer on 6 figure salary? I want to work there. At least the man would still be paying taxes in the country. If given the chance im sure plenty of people would do this.

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#11 17-01-2013 12:50am
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Is this groundhog day

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#12 17-01-2013 1:25am
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Ah so. . .

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#13 17-01-2013 2:47am
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Fair play to him. I'm sure he won't be too upset if he managed to make as much as is claimed. I'd do it if I knew I'd get away with it, unfortunatly I don't make six figures a year if I get busted :pac:

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#14 17-01-2013 2:51am
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Deleted User wrote: »

Clever or stupid! Most people are just happy to have a job, rather than risk it like this.
His boss might cop on and send all the jobs to China.

Sounds like he was making that happen all by himself -

BBC wrote:

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.

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#15 17-01-2013 2:55am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

Surely not.

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#16 17-01-2013 10:09am
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Not arecent thing either according to this user friendly strip fro 2010 ( which could be a repeat from much earlier)
Happened to read it yesterday by pure coincidence

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