外判工序個人化

外判工序個人化



美國政經界近年時常指美國人搬到中國的工序，是中國人搶走了美國人的工作，令到失業率大增。


又指中國政府有優惠的稅制，補貼某些行業可以用低廉價格，搶走美國自家本土製造貨物的市場佔有率，需要實施懲罰性關稅，去保存美國製造業的競爭力。


可是，美國人沒有自省，何故美國公司要搬到中國呢？為何工序要外判到中國呢？美國的薪酬是中國的幾多倍呢？可以閱讀以下免費報：


【AM730專訊】美國電訊商 Verizon 一名軟件開發員被揭偷懶，竟私自把工作外判予中國公司，惹來黑客疑雲而被解僱。

該名員工年約四十多歲，一直被公司喻為最佳開發員。直至保安部門發現不時有人從中國登入公司系統，調查是否有黑客入侵，才東窗事發。

他原來一直花約五分一年薪，即約 39萬港元，聘請瀋陽一間公司完成其職務，然後每天上班都在瀏覽拍賣及社交網站。


同工是否同酬呢？1/5的薪酬在中國瀋陽，可以聘請一Team人為他工作，而且可以成為“最佳員工” 。。。。。。不過，撇開薪酬討論，嗜悲 覺得“懶”才是最大的推動力，若果人不懶，就不會去找尋方法去偷懶。


嗜悲 上網 search 一吓，這位躲懶但不失聰明的人，原來是真有其人，不過未有報導他的真名，但化名為：阿Bob


【ABCnews】A software developer was busted for outsourcing his job to a programmer in China while he surfed the Web at work.

The case was described by Andrew Valentine, a principal with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, who published a blog post about the incident.

"We've seen plenty of employee misconduct cases, but not typically like this," Valentine told ABC News of his consulting caseload, which includes large scale data breach events.

Valentine's team was contacted by another company based in the U.S. for assistance over "anomalous activity" it noticed in records of employees logging remotely into the company's IT system.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is not releasing the name of the company or the employee.

The company's security team eventually found that someone was logging in from Shenyang, China with the American employee's credentials -- while that employee was staring at a computer monitor in his U.S. office.


In his blog, Valentine described the employee as being in his mid-40s with a "relatively long tenure with the company, family man, inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator."

A search of the employee's computer found hundreds of PDF invoices from a third party contractor/developer from Shenyang.

Eventually, it was discovered that the employee had outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, paying about $50,000 to the firm out of his salary of several hundred thousand dollars.

Once on-site, Valentine said it took about two days for investigators to collect relevant evidence and put all the pieces together.

In the blog, Valentine wrote that according to his Web browsing history, "a typical 'work day'" for the employee looked like the following:

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

The employee had sent his company log-in key through FedEx to China so that the third-party contractor could log in under his credentials during his workday.

The "best part" of the story is that "for the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks" in his performance review, Valentine wrote in the blog.

"His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."

Valentine said the employee was terminated for violating internal company policy.

"The employee denied everything at first, but then changed his story once we produced the invoices that were recovered from deleted disk space," Valentine told ABC News.

"Honestly? I thought it was pretty clever. I think he took a calculated risk by knowingly violating company policy, for sure -- but it was clever."

Valentine said that if he was even cleverer, he would have set up a server at home, or somewhere else off-site, for the Chinese consulting firm to access. Then he could proxy their traffic, making it appear that the traffic was coming from his home.

"That would have been a smarter way to go about it. But yes, either way, pretty clever," Valentine said.


各位可有會心微笑，中國人的出品真的是 “平、靚、正！” BBC 也有相同的報導：US employee outsourced job to China !!!


【BBC】The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.

He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.

Operator Verizon says the scam came to light after the US firm asked it for an audit, suspecting a security breach.

According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the infrastructure company requested the operator's risk team last year to investigate some anomalous activity on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.

"This organisation had been slowly moving toward a more telecommuting oriented workforce, and they had therefore started to allow their developers to work from home on certain days. In order to accomplish this, they'd set up a fairly standard VPN concentrator approximately two years prior to our receiving their call," he was quoted as saying on an internet security website.

The company had discovered the existence of an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang to the employee's workstation that went back months, Mr Valentine said.

And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confidential information from the company to China.

"Central to the investigation was the employee himself, the person whose credentials had been used to initiate and maintain a VPN connection from China," said Mr Valentine.

Further investigation of the employee's computer had revealed hundreds of PDF documents of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, he added.

The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages, "spent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him", Mr Valentine said.

"Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day," he added.

"Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (£31,270) annually."



連個人都懂得外判工序到中國，可知高薪酬才是令到美國人欠缺競爭力，若沒有保護主義，美國的失業率會是幾多呢？





伸延閱覽：
美漢職務外判華 AM730.com
US Software Developer Caught Outsourcing His Job to China abcnews.go.com
US employee outsourced job to China bbb.co.uk