10 Dumbest Reasons People Have Been Fired From Their Job

4. A Web Developer Outsources His Own Job To China

A man the papers called "Bob", who "worked" for a US company, was discovered in 2013 to have hired a Shanghai consultancy to do the work that he was getting paid for. For this small service, he paid them a fifth of his salary. You might be wondering who loses in this scenario. Well, the answer is you. You lose because Bob still earned close to six figures and his working day genuinely looked like this: 9am - Reddit, cat videos ; 11:30am - lunch ; 1:00 - Ebay ; 2:00 - Facebook, LinkedIn ; 4:30 - update email to management ; 5:00 - go home. Apart from the fact that the laziest worker in America still felt the need to update LinkedIn every day, the best part of this story is that he'd been doing this with different companies for years, and had won many, many employee of the month awards. It's hard to hate Bob for living the life we probably would if we'd thought of his plan first, but how did those companies miss this for so long? If Bob's life were a film, it would be panned as stupidly unrealistic, even though it would mostly consist of a guy sitting on his behind watching cat videos all day.