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Oggi mi sono imbattuto in questa storia (che a quanto pare è vera) che da un lato mi ha esaltato («è un genio!»), dall'altro molto depresso («ma dove diavolo siamo arrivati?»): il colosso telefonico americano Verizon ha scoperto che un suo dipendente aveva dato in outsourcing il suo lavoro in Cina e passava le sue giornate di lavoro sui social network e a guardare video di gatti su Youtube (sic). La differenza tra il suo stipendio americano e il costo dell'azienda cinese a cui aveva appaltato il suo lavoro era tale da consentirgli di farci comunque parecchi soldi senza muovere un dito. Qua i dettagli, e la storia di come l'hanno beccato.

No, this is not the Onion, it’s not April Fools, and I’m not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon, or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team.
 

See also – Verizon investigator: How one US developer could have gotten away with outsourcing his job to China

The story goes a little something like this. A developer at a US-based critical infrastructure company, referred to as “Bob,” was caught last year outsourcing his work to China, paying someone else less than one fifth of his six-figure salary to do his job. As a result, Bob had a lot of time on his hands; in fact, during the investigation, his browsing history revealed this was his typical work day:
 

• 9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos.
• 11:30 a.m. – Take lunch.
• 1:00 p.m. – Ebay time.
• 2:00 – ish p.m Facebook updates – LinkedIn.
• 4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.
• 5:00 p.m. – Go home.

 
Again, I want to emphasize that I haven’t invented this schedule for the sake of making this story more interesting or to have a snazzy headline. This comes straight from Verizon; take that as you will.
 

Apparently Bob had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area (this part is a little unclear given that he clearly couldn’t physically go into work for all of them), earning “several hundred thousand dollars a year,” and only paying the Chinese consulting firm “about fifty grand annually.” At the unnamed company, he apparently received excellent performance reviews for the last several years in a row, even being hailed the best developer in the building: his code was clean, well-written, and submitted in a timely fashion. [#]