With the recent influx of pootie diaries, I thought I should introduce Programmer Bob who was on the news today.
A forensic image of Bob’s workstation revealed his true work habits and typical day:
9:00 a.m. — Get to work, surf Reddit, watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. — Lunch
1:00 p.m. — Ebay
2:00 p.m or so — Facebook and LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. — Send end-of-day e-mail update to management
5:00 p.m. — Go home
The Verizon investigation suggested Bob’s entrepreneurial outsourcing spirit stretched across several companies in his area — netting him several hundred thousand dollars a year as he paid out about $50,000 a year to his China-based ghost writers, according to hundreds of PDF invoices also discovered on his work computer.
Bob represents the mercurial entrepreneurship of a Pootie innovator . Methinks he should go into software consulting. I failed to understand the outrage of Verizon. Is it wrong for Bob to outsource while it is right for his employer Verizon to outsource?
Bob had hired a programming firm in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang to do his work. His helpers half a world away worked overnight on a schedule imitating an average 9-to-5 workday in the United States. He paid them one-fifth of his six-figure salary, according to Verizon.
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