<p dir="ltr">He was certainly stupid for getting caught. Allowing a Chinese company to VPN was stupid. I would fire someone for that. But, if I found out a developer was outsourcing work and it caused no inconveniences... I'd promote him to manager and ask him to manager as many contractors as he could while maintaining the quality of service his internal customers have been receiving and raving about.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Every time I've outsourced to contractors, my customers have been disappointed compared to our FTE devs.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, why ship your key fob to China? Just point a webcam at it. That is a great way to deal with the situation where you are forced to carry multiple key fobs!</p>
<p dir="ltr">This story is almost awesome, but falls into the sad category.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2013 8:23 AM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font><font face="georgia,serif">I think he was clever, but lazy - i<font>f he had set up a system at home to get the stuff from China, and post it into the corporate system from his house, he'd never have been found out. And if he'd made the effort to appear active at work (or working remotely), there would have been no counter-evidence</font><br>
</font></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I love it. As to the question of how he could 'work' multiple jobs, surely he could have had a work from home opportunity as well.<br>
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