Developer Outsources Job to China, Surfs Internet All Day

[Anaxamenes]

One guy does it, Travesty! A whole company does it, that just makes good business sense.

 

[unempit]

Aside from the security and ethical aspects, If I am not doing actual work at work, I would fall asleep and snore so loudly my boss would hear me 4 aisles away and fire me.

 

[maxinexus]

Idiot

 

[frombehind]

[citation][nom]mrmaia[/nom]This happens all the time in engineering - the experts are paid tons of money to outsource their work to students and rookies while they play Solitaire all day.[/citation]
Story of my life 😀 however I have moved up from solitaire to CoD and WoW a while ago!

 

[Non-Euclidean]

[citation][nom]upto I looked at the paycheck ov $8324, I didnt believe that my cousin woz like actualy erning money parttime from their computer.. there aunt haz done this for less than 22 months and resantly cleared the dept on their house and purchased a top of the range Peugeot 205 GTi. we looked here, http://Fox76.com[/citation]

I wanna know what department was on their house and how did it get there? Was it the Fire Department or the Police Department? How were all those people and equipment up there? That house must have insane walls to support all that weight!

 

[Tanquen]

Romney, big business, the GOP, their buddies and so on, outsource whole companies and its pats on the back and GWB tax breaks for helping to disassemble the economy and knowhow in this country. The little guy does it and he is fired or sued or arrested.

 

[rebel1280]

[citation][nom]jonyah[/nom]Stupid. The company, not this worker. This company just fired their star coder. Regardless of whether or not he did the actual work, it was all legit work. He got the job done that he was given, despite his artistic way of doing it. Yes, he was smart to get someone else to do it for 20% of what he was making. Much smarter than his superiors obviously. But, outsourcing usually doesn't work unless you have a competent person keeping up with the people doing the work. He obviously did a good job at that and should have just been promoted to management. Fire the other developers, save your money and let him manage more outsourced work. This company was really dumb in how they handled this.[/citation]
I am surprised at myself for this...but i agree with you haha.

 

[descalada]

This is similar to the book the 4-Hour Work Week... But the guy in the book owned his company vs. handing out his security access. Instead of working 60-80 hours every week, delegate in a way that makes it profitable (more time and/or more positive cash flow). Read the book, it has great ideas on how to do this in more legitimate ways.

 

[ubercake]

He's working for himself. Basically running his own company. Brilliant.

 

[ankaj]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]As a programmer I've been tempted to do something like this myself. The problem is that most work requires an in depth knowledge of your company, attending meetings, etc. I guess if I spent a bunch of time writing requirements docs, architecture plans, screen mockups, etc then I could send this to a dev in China. But that takes almost as much work as just coding it myself.Mind you, I've only worked for smaller companies. Maybe larger companies actually provide developers with proper documentation.[/citation]


I work for a "larger" company, I can attest that we also do not have documentation... 🙁

 

[robochump]

So many very smart people in China but man this is so wrong! lol Would be surprised if that developer didnt have to pay damages as well!?!

 

[nonoitall]

He stole the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

(TheOnion is satire for those who don't know.)

 

[kingnoobe]

To me it sounds like this guy was a better manager then the actual manager lol.

 

[dozerman]

I highly doubt this guy was doing anything to check the integrity of the code. God knows how many back doors and purposeful security flaws made it past him and into the final product.

 

[agnickolov]

I happen to know the affected company and I can confirm it really is responsible for critical infrastructure software. And no, it's not Microsoft. I'm not going to share the company name considering all the news outlets have decided not to do so.

 

[rantoc]

Beside the obvious security concerns (allow others into the corp network and do coding on god knows what) I don't see anything wrong with his actions. Heck any corp today outsources anything in the name of profit!

 

[DSpider]

[citation][nom]nonoitall[/nom]He stole the idea:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ(TheOnion is satire for those who don't know.)[/citation]
I peed a little.

 

[firemachine69]

[citation][nom]jonyah[/nom]Stupid. The company, not this worker. This company just fired their star coder. Regardless of whether or not he did the actual work, it was all legit work. He got the job done that he was given, despite his artistic way of doing it. Yes, he was smart to get someone else to do it for 20% of what he was making. Much smarter than his superiors obviously. But, outsourcing usually doesn't work unless you have a competent person keeping up with the people doing the work. He obviously did a good job at that and should have just been promoted to management. Fire the other developers, save your money and let him manage more outsourced work. This company was really dumb in how they handled this.[/citation]


Hell, why not just outsource the entire country, right?