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The Sirius 'Open Source' Fantasy — Part I — In 2022 the Company Was Already Too Deep in Debt

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  1. YOU ARE HERE ☞ In 2022 the Company Was Already Too Deep in Debt


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Summary: A look back at what happened in Sirius 'Open Source' last year

THE last year of Sirius (CEO left already) is easy to recall in light of an old recording of a 2-hour meeting. After the company had secretly plundered its own staff it was desperately chasing clients while abusing and underpaying staff, as we explained before.



In the name of "cost savings" (nope!) it adopted "clown computing" and then it let go of a physical office. It was changing servers by getting rid of its own. Everything it had left was a virtual asset... there were no physical assets left. Such facts have been mentioned since, even in the meeting, which brought up potential clients. It's worth noting that these clients never became actual clients of Sirius and the company was trying to rebrand or reinvent itself as SiriUS (it was pronounced Sir... US).

"That the company secretly plundered members of staff is something that wasn't confirmed until this year. Now we work towards accountability (prosecution)."The manager who left last month was basically reporting to staff, showing his graph presentation while talking about sales, engineering, infrastructure, outsourcing, support, projects etc. Of course it all become a complete disaster. Almost an hour in he was summarising the re-infrastructuring process -- something that never happened.

I first considered leaving the company in 2019 (after the likely illegal contract-signing, then the NDA and the bullying), but last year I was already sure I'd leave. That the company secretly plundered members of staff is something that wasn't confirmed until this year. Now we work towards accountability (prosecution).

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