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[Meme] When Egotistic People Make Egoistic Companies Staff Becomes Disgruntled

Andrew Bucknor: it's not for the company; it's for me, serving me and my big ego

Summary: Disgruntled staff* at Sirius 'Open Source' does not wish to lie and work for unethical people; the company then prefers to think of the staff as the real problem (inversion of narratives)

___ * This wasn't limited to my wife and I. There's evidence of others, including a close colleague. He hated the company's shift to proprietary stuff (he did resist), he admits he was bullied, he repeatedly antagonised having to lie to clients, and he is very unhappy about not being able to access machines or certain systems just because he's not literally sleeping with the Support Manager (like some new workers... yes, plural!). Moreover he felt like a task was done intentionally on a weekend off to keep him off the job, using a technology he does not know (they try to keep other staff down, to keep the "bedroom" in control of the company).

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