[LINK] Outsource your own job.

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Jim Birch wrote:

> Great work if you can get it!
>
> Considered rationally, it's not obvious why the guy should have been
> sacked, except for the small matter of security policy violations, and the
> unfortunate fact that it just doesn't look good.  OTOH, the company could
> have been getting a great two-for-one deal here: One executive developer
> and one gun coder for the single salary.

The core mistake was letting the chinese coder use the guy's credentials to 
login to the local network.  He should have setup a "chinese wall" so to speak
and proxied everything via private SSH tunnels to his home account and so on....

...if the guy outsourcing his job was carefully doing peer review of any of 
his "submissions" checking for "quality" and so on, before checking the code in,
then I would have to say he was just being a very good technical manager who had 
found a way to automate what he couldn't be bothered coding himself.   ;)


rachel

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