Worker outsourced his job
Companies fire people and outsource, with a tremendous social cost of unemployment.
Why can't workers outsource? How is that if a worker does it, it is cheating, but if a company does it, it is business?
US programmer outsourced own job to China, spent workdays on Reddit and Facebook
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-employee-o...ing-china-177/
What is the ethics behind it?
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
It's the employer's job. Not the employee's.
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I don't see any reason why a worker shouldn't be able to outsource. . . provided he informs people and it's allowed in the terms of the contract. What this guy did is fraud.Originally Posted by ar81
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Also a massive security breach.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
This.
I was going to post this story oddly enough. On the one hand of all the weird things to do I find the idea both amusing and ingenious - but the practicality is its a crime and could have severe security issues for the companies he defrauded.
So the best is to create a programming company where you are the only employee, make a company to hie you and the outsource the job to China. That would be the same, but legal...
How do you know software you own has nothing made in China? Multinational IT companies outsource their software to India...
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
That depends on the contract. But yes it could be legal.
How do you know software you own has nothing made in China? Multinational IT companies outsource their software to India...What has anything you said to do with what he said?
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Depends upon the contract. Off the top of my head if they'd hired him there'd probably be a confidentiality clause in the contract and thus outsourcing the work would once again be fraudulant and a breach of contract.
That's irrelevant. The work being outsourced/completed overseas is not the issue. The company not being in control of it is. They even had taken steps supplying their staff with RSA tokens to prevent outside access but he shipped his over!How do you know software you own has nothing made in China? Multinational IT companies outsource their software to India...
Indeed. The global Banks and Insurance firms I've worked for fr'instance are very, very protective, not only of the data they create and hold, but also the code that is written by their staff, systems architecture information, business concept models, business process/procedure documents, and policy documents.
On your first day in the job you sign explicit confidentiality clauses and data protection forms. Training is given annually to all staff on what constitutes data protection and breaches thereof.
Back in the days when I used to write code for the Bank, we had a comment template which we had to copy to the top of every code segment we wrote, which copyrighted that code to them. The same went for the software development which the Bank outsourced to India (and increasingly, Brazil) - their 3rd party contracts were explicit in terms of confidentiality, and all that code was copyrighted in the same way.
This man would be marched straight out the door for blatant breach of contract.
That is the biggest issue.
There goes Alpha's paycheck.
That begs the question of why the company wouldn't just give the contract to a Chinese firm, instead of working through a Costa Rican middle man.
Hope is the denial of reality
A reasonable question, but these kind of sub-sub-sub contracts are not that uncommon.
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This is awesome. Especially because he had to show up in an office every day. He was able to review code made by other people for several different jobs and navigate office politics. Besides the breach of contract/security and ethical issues behind it, well done to this man.
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