[antihero]

Am I the only person that really doesn't see the problem here?

[GFischer]

The problem is, he violated the company's trust by sending sensitive information to unauthorized third parties.

[AnIrishDuck]

Bingo. He also most likely exposed additional valuable and proprietary IP to a third party that a) has no formal business relationship with the company and b) operates in a country notorious for IP theft.

Firing him is a no-brainer here, if this story is even true.

EDIT: he also opened a large portion of the company's codebase to potential sabotage. If I was in Company X's shoes right now I'd be doing a full audit of everything this joker has touched since he started, in addition to a full internal security audit of everything this mystery third party had access to. This kind of security breach is a Big Deal.

[dalore]

But he would have had those companies sign an NDA (in theory) so they are in effect umbrella'd into his.

[justinhj]

If ndas worked that way there'd be no point in ndas.

[jtms]

I also REALLY don't see a problem with this... I would have given him a raise and more work to outsource rather than giving the boot.

[roozbeh18]

hahaaa

[flyinRyan]

Problem: he didn't have a manager title. If he did, he would probably have been promoted.

[ramy_d]

No one talked about whether he lied about his skills and the quality of work he oversaw.

[roozbeh18]

he is probably over qualified old man

[ericcumbee]

not a lawyer, but you could probably make a case for fraud.

[headbiznatch]

Seriously. Managing Chinese contractors is hard work!