Work is haaaaard —

World’s most industrious lazy man outsources all of his work to China

He's responsible for the loss of one American job: his own.

We all know how much of a grind the old 9-to-5 can be. You wake up early, spend the first hour of your morning stuck in traffic, and then you're stuck doing the same boring old thing until it's time to go home in the same traffic, go to bed, and wake up to do it all over again. One programmer had enough of this, according to the BBC: his employer started allowing workers to telecommute, so rather than continue to do the work himself, he outsourced his job to a contractor based in Shenyang, China for just a fifth of his yearly salary.

His scam went on for months before it was discovered by security auditors, who were prompted to investigate what they suspected was a malware problem. Instead, they noticed that someone was using the employee's credentials to log in to the company's VPN server from China, and they also discovered "hundreds" of invoices from the Chinese contractor on his work computer.

"Authentication was no problem," said security investigator Andrew Valentine. "He physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log in under his credentials during the workday."

The investigation is still ongoing, but the evidence says that this guy may have had more than just this scam going: he was also apparently "working" at several other companies, making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while paying Chinese contractors just $50,000 to get all of the work done.

Channel Ars Technica