While most American employees in this economy live in fear of having their jobs outsourced, Verizon admits it recently terminated an employee who voluntarily outsourced his work to China, just so he could get paid for wasting time online.

In a blog post on Verizon's site, computer security expert Andrew Valentine explained at some point last year, the company was surprised to see an employee's computer was being accessed from Shenyang, China. Thinking a hacker was at work, experts further investigated the matter -- and the employee, a software developer who the company dubbed "Bob."

Instead of malicious hackers at work, they quickly found evidence of a Verizon employee who was not. Pay stubs "Bob" created on his computer revealed he used 50 grand of his several hundred thousand dollar salary to pay techs in China to do his work for him. This left "Bob" with quite a bit of free time from 9-5, which the Verizon team detailed as: watching cat videos, surfing Reddit, sending Facebook updates, and, of course, sending an end-of-day email to his superiors to take credit for the work of his Chinese "employees."

"Bob" had apparently pulled the same clever scam at other companies, and in every case, HR evaluations gave him high marks for his "well-written" code. The Verizon blog notes, "Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."