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U.S. programmer outsources own job to China, surfs cat videos
Heard about this on CNBC. What I'd like to know is if "Bob" was an actual programmer, his training and background etc. A professional would have more pride in doing his own work. To add insult to injury, he's representative of the average statistics of slacker workers in the U.S. who waste at least an hour or two on the internet instead of working at the job and failure of IT depts to monitor and restrict time wasted on the internet. It was also discussed that he wasn't "smart" enough to have a proxy server at home and instead let the outsourced Chinese group direct access to his company's network and his work computer. Sets a bad example in favor of outsourcing and offshoring.
Further investigation would probably reveal that...
The guy in China outsourced it to a guy in India for $10,000 who out sourced to the guy in Vietnam for $1,000.
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well, being a programmer/analyst (since 1978) I found this story amusing/strange - and definitely not something I would ever consider.
Programming is a lot more fun than watching cat movies or ebay/facebook.
But then, at least the guy was helping out some poor chinese programmers, giving them some work to do.
If he was a trader they would say he is an Arb (arbitrage) Trader.
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I am the programmer/analyst at a local private university.
Currently developing on/for a Windows client-server/web environment.
When I started out in 1978 I worked with punched cards on an IBM 135 machine.
I evolved with technology, exclusively on the mainframe for the first 20 years; later on integrating client-server with the mainframe for another 7 years.
Then I moved and had to start over - finding a new job in a town where only two companies run a mainframe (and they didn't hire).
I retrained myself on the fly - Windows technology is child's play, compared to developing for IBM mainframe.
The most important thing I learned is: a byte still has 8 bits, and all your questions can be answered with "yes" or "no".