Top developer outsources self

**mudskipper** · 16 January 2013, 08:19

The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

**Mich the Tester** · 16 January 2013, 08:22

Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

**Scrag Meister** · 16 January 2013, 08:23

Fair play, I'm sure we all wish we could have pulled this one off.

Sounds like he may have been worth employing cos of his initiative.

**mos** · 16 January 2013, 08:31

Brilliant ... so was that going on undetected for several years?

So how come that the quality of the outsourced development was so high? it is a lesson to learn about how to outsource.

**doodab** · 16 January 2013, 08:32

Why the **** wouldn't you put him in charge? He's clearly smart and able to recruit and manage offshore teams, just what the modern IT dept is crying out for.

**d000hg** · 16 January 2013, 08:33

Originally posted by mos View Post

Brilliant ... so was that going on undetected for several years?

So how come that the quality of the outsourced development was so high? it is a lesson to learn about how to outsource.

There are good developers out there if you can find them... and a developer would be far more able to figure out which are the good ones than a management-consultancy discussion.

They say they fired him, but I hope they kept the outsourced team who were clearly better than their own people.

**Mich the Tester** · 16 January 2013, 08:52

Originally posted by doodab View Post

Why the **** wouldn't you put him in charge? He's clearly smart and able to recruit and manage offshore teams, just what the modern IT dept is crying out for.

Indeed, but he's clearly a non-conformist; not the sort of person many corporations hire or retain. He broke company policies, he didn't abide by the rules, he was naughty. The fact the got the work done effectively and could probably do even more valuable work is completely irrelevant and of no consequence in any hiring and firing decision.

**vetran** · 16 January 2013, 09:09

Respect!

**redgiant** · 16 January 2013, 15:55

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

So is that a typical day of one of you home working developers then? And what is it with cat videos?

Top developer outsources self