Developer Outsources his own job

A US software developer (doing government work) apparently outsourced himself.  Basically he took some of his wages and hired a team in China to do the work.  And he was considered one of the best programmers they had….He was caught thru a security audit (found lots of traffic logging in with his username/password from China).    What did he do all day.  Apparently same thing with other companies and surf the web (i.e. goof off).

I have heard stories of this being done, but this is the first time I have a concrete article about it.  It makes me wonder how cheap can you get engineers overseas, and how often this really happens.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/developer_oursources_job_china/

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