Manager Wishes All Employees Worked as Hard as Clandestine North Korean

Arther Daniels, regional manager for the Dyson Software company has a problem, and it's not the secret North Korean man he discovered had been working for him for nearly six months. It's everyone else.

"The man works like his life depends on it, which I'm pretty sure it does," says Daniels. "I just wish everyone else cared that much."

Daniels first began to suspect remote "John Johanssen" after the remote employee claimed his webcam was still broken after three months, he seemed to work all hours of the night, and showed completely lack of knowledge of basic American culture. "Yeah, I was pretty sure after he wished me a happy flag day that he was from North Korea."

Daniels has tried hard to push the rest of the team to follow Johanssen's example of working through weekends and holidays, while never disagreeing or saying no to any projects.

When asked if he was concerned about the possibility of severe fines for employing a North Korean in violation of US sanctions, Daniels only shrugged. "If this were the North Korean government, I'd be worried. The U.S. government, not so much."