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Sirius Open Source (SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD, company number 11014042) is introduced and explained in a series that chronicles its transition from hero to zero. The company is not likely to last long, so the reasons for its fall need to be properly documented and lessons hopefully learned by other companies. There is also a page that covers Crimes of Sirius Open Source as it became rather long in its own right.

Crimes of Sirius Open Source

The sections and articles below are split accordingly, usually in no particular order except chronologically.

Articles

Departure Message

Sirius Open Source is No Longer Open Source and It’s Simply Unethical to Stay There

The Company Where I've Worked for Nearly 12 Years Went Rogue and Earlier This Year I Decided to Leave (personal site)

↺ The Company Where I've Worked for Nearly 12 Years Went Rogue and Earlier This Year I Decided to Leave

Pre-Departure

↺ Entering Phase Two of Life

Summary

The Collapse of Sirius in a Nutshell: How to Identify the Symptoms and Decide When to Leave

Summary of the Issues at Sirius Open Source (personal site)

↺ Summary of the Issues at Sirius Open Source

Sirius Finished

Sirius Over, But Where Have the Pensions Gone? (personal site)

↺ Sirius Over, But Where Have the Pensions Gone?

Company Timeline

Videos

Immoral Clientele

The Morality of Your Clients and Suppliers Should Matter (It No Longer Matters in Sirius 'Open Source')

Resigning Was the Belated and Necessary Moral Choice (personal site)

↺ Resigning Was the Belated and Necessary Moral Choice

Month in Review

A December Series About the Demise of Sirius 'Open Source'

Conflicts Inside Sirius Open Source (personal site)

↺ Conflicts Inside Sirius Open Source

Misleading Name

Dishonest Companies Disguised as 'Open Source' (After Abandoning It)

A Fake Company of Fake Size (personal site)]

↺ A Fake Company of Fake Size

Secrecy

When a Company Simply Refuses to Talk to Technical and Exerienced Staff Through Internal Avenues

Sirius Open Source Operating in the Dark (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Operating in the Dark

De Facto Gag Orders

Sirius Not-So-‘Open Source’: Cannot Talk to Colleagues, Cannot Speak About Work

Lies at Sirius Open Source (personal site)

↺ Lies at Sirius Open Source

Legal Breaches

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Failing at the Most Basic Employment Regulations

When It Comes to Payslips, Sirius ‘Open Source’ Broke Labour Regulations (personal site)

↺ When It Comes to Payslips, Sirius ‘Open Source’ Broke Labour Regulations

Financial Woes

Sirius ‘Open Source’ and the Money Missing From the Pension

Sirius Corporation Threatened With Fines and Penalties for Pension Issues (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation Threatened With Fines and Penalties for Pension Issues

Dishonesty

Cannot Trust Anything Management at Sirius ‘Open Source’ Ever Says

When Colleagues Lie to Clients (Sirius Corporation) (personal site)

↺ When Colleagues Lie to Clients (Sirius Corporation)

Insecurity

Security First? Not a Chance!

Security Problems at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Security Problems at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Selling Everything Away

Turning a Company With an Office Into Merely an Account in Another Country

Almost Nothing Left of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Almost Nothing Left of Sirius ‘Open Source’

Underpaid Workers

Sirius Open Source or Foxconn? Can't Speak, Can't Ask for Rights and Better Pay (Salary Lowered Every Year, Some Payments Missed).

Sirius Open Source and Its Money Problem (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source and Its Money Problem

Inflation at 0%

Oppressing and Grossly Underpaying Sirius Staff (Not the ‘Open Source’ Spirit, or Is It?)

‘Open Source’ Does Not Mean Pay Minimum Wage (personal site)

↺ ‘Open Source’ Does Not Mean Pay Minimum Wage

Pressure to Lie

Won't Work for Liars Anymore (Enough is Enough)

Don't Work for Companies That 'Normalise' Dishonesty (personal site)

↺ Don't Work for Companies That 'Normalise' Dishonesty

Brain Drain

Sirius Could Not 'Manage' Its Way Out of Disaster; Instead It Bullied and Drove Away Important Staff

Sirius Drove Out the Staff (personal site)

↺ Sirius Drove Out the Staff

Financial Sink

Financial State of Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Not Been Good for Years

Sirius Open Source Probably Insolvent (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Probably Insolvent

Unqualified Management

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Where Babysitters and Secretaries/Personal Assistants Can Miraculously Become Managers (and Fail at It Really Badly)

When Your Boss is Literally a Babysitter (personal site)

↺ When Your Boss is Literally a Babysitter

Shell Companies

This Shell Game Gives 'Open Source' a Bad Name (personal site)

This Shell Game Gives 'Open Source' a Bad Name

There Are Now at Least Three ‘Shell Companies’ for Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ There Are Now at Least Three ‘Shell Companies’ for Sirius ‘Open Source’

Ignoring Security Breaches

Employers Should Not Berate and Blackmail Staff Into Abandoning Security and Privacy

How Sirius Open Source Turned From a Company Into Just an Account (personal site)

↺ How Sirius Open Source Turned From a Company Into Just an Account

Aggression Against Staff's Rights

Human Resources (HR) as Pretext and Weapon Against Staff

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Self-Nuked With an External Human Resources (HR) Firm (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Self-Nuked With an External Human Resources (HR) Firm

Lying About History

Sirius Open Source Based on a Lie (Told by Its Fake Non-Founder)

Sirius Originally Registered in Greater Manchester (personal site)

↺ Sirius Originally Registered in Greater Manchester

Microsoft's LinkedIn Spreading Disinformation (Revisionism) About History of Sirius 'Open Source'

Sirius Weaponised Wikipedia to Perpetuate Lies/Revisionism About Itself

Data Breaches Impacting Clients

LastPassing the Liability During Holidays

LastPass Data Breach a Last Straw for Sirius 'Open Source' (personal site)

↺ LastPass Data Breach a Last Straw for Sirius 'Open Source'

Truth Isn't an Option

When Dishonesty Becomes Mandatory and Cover-up Obligatory

Sirius Open Source Compels Staff to Lie (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Compels Staff to Lie

More Shell Games?

Sirius Corporation's Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements Released a Day Before Christmas Eve

Sirius Corporation and Debt-Dodging or Liability Evasion (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation and Debt-Dodging or Liability Evasion

Surveillance Outside Work

Frivolous Harassment and Surveillance Instead of Serving Clients

Muck-raking by Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Muck-raking by Sirius ‘Open Source’

Kakistocracy in Chief

When Companies Are Kinship Cliques That Refuse to Listen to Technical Staff

Sirius Corporation: A 'Tech' Company Run by Non-Technical People (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation: A 'Tech' Company Run by Non-Technical People

Unpaid Bills

Symptoms of an Impending Bankruptcy?

Sirius Implosion: The Signs Are There Already (personal site)

↺ Sirius Implosion: The Signs Are There Already

Abandoning Reality

When Lies Prevail It's Time to Leave the Company

Lying as Cultural Norm at Sirius Open Source (personal site)

↺ Lying as Cultural Norm at Sirius Open Source

Staff Has No Rights

Sirius Open Source Uses ‘Privacy’ as a Weapon Against Truth-tellers (Can’t Speak Outside Work, Always Hush-Hush)

Staff Without Rights, Staff Without a Voice (personal site)

↺ Staff Without Rights, Staff Without a Voice

Dividing the Staff

When Talking About Wrongdoing is Considered Impressible

Is Truth/Honesty Worse Than Wrongdoing? (personal site)

↺ Is Truth/Honesty Worse Than Wrongdoing?

Company's Mission Abandoned

When You Realise That Your Employer Not Only Abandons Free Software But is Also Becoming Truly Dodgy (and Starts Taking Money From Bill Gates Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement)

Sirius Corporation Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Gave Money to the Boss Through a Newly-Created Shell in the US (First Client, Deal Signed Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement!) (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Gave Money to the Boss Through a Newly-Created Shell in the US (First Client, Deal Signed Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement!)

Hopping Between Shells

Sirius Open Source Inc. Can't Handle the Truth

↺ The Shell Game of Sirius Open Source Inc.

Reports

A Decent Start

The Fall of Sirius Open Source: How a Leader and FSF Sponsor (for Multiple Years) Became an Abject Failure

Sirius Open Source Explained (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Explained

Supporting Community

Sirius 'Open Source' When It Actually Understood and Respected Software Freedom

The Old Sirius 'Open Source' Was a Patron (Sponsor) of KDE and FSF (personal site)

↺ The Old Sirius 'Open Source' Was a Patron (Sponsor) of KDE and FSF

Attacking the Messengers

Sirius Open Source: The Home of Stress and Bullying by Management

Chronic Abuse in Sirius Open Source Ltd. (personal site)

↺ Chronic Abuse in Sirius Open Source Ltd.

Attacking Disabled People

That Time Sirius 'Open Source' Fired a Blind Lady While Gagging Sympathetic Staff

Sirius Open Source Has Long Been Blind to Criticism (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Has Long Been Blind to Criticism

Ignoring the Law

Sirius ‘Open Source’: When the Company Stops Paying Your Pension and You Don't Know Until the Pension Provider Keeps Sending Physical Post to Alert You

Pension Blunders at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Pension Blunders at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Scapegoating

Code of Conduct-Like Culture at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Managers Never Held Accountable for Anything, Other Staff Blamed for Management's Failures)

Managing or Bullying Staff at Sirius ‘Open Source'? (personal site)

↺ Managing or Bullying Staff at Sirius ‘Open Source'?

Cover-up

Lack of Principles and a Lack of Honesty at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Which Was Gradually Moving Away From Open Source)

Sirius Corporation's Openwashing (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation's Openwashing

Security Never a Priority

Sirius Open SORES: There's a Lot More to Security and Privacy Than Namedropping (e.g. 'ISO' and 'GDPR')

Patching My Work PC (at Sirius Open Source) ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’? (personal site)

↺ Patching My Work PC (at Sirius Open Source) ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’?

No Sovereignty

Sirius Open Source: Secure Only 'on Paper'

Pay Sirius Coporation, Get GAFAM Instead (personal site)

↺ Pay Sirius Coporation, Get GAFAM Instead

Systems Gone Away

Sirius 'Open Source' Moved From Hosting Its Own (and Sometimes Clients') Servers to Outsourcing to Another Country, Sometimes With Proprietary Software

When Your Company is Outsourcing Almost Everything (personal site)

↺ When Your Company is Outsourcing Almost Everything

Same Salary in 2022 as in 2011

↺ The Time Sirius Didn’t Cover Expenses for Journeys

Sirius Open Source Isn't Sirius About Paying a Living Wage (personal site)

Sirius Open Source Isn't Sirius About Paying a Living Wage

Workers Bear All the Costs

Sirius Open Source: Buy Your Own Desk, Bring/Buy Your Own Device (BYOD), Repair and Maintain Your Computer at Your Own Expense and Time

Sirius Open Source Passes All Costs to Staff, No Salary Increase in 12 Years (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Passes All Costs to Staff, No Salary Increase in 12 Years

Dishonesty and Cover-up at the Top

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Lying to Its Own Clients and Failing to Meet SLAs

Lying to Paying Clients, Not Just to Staff (personal site)

↺ Lying to Paying Clients, Not Just to Staff

Lazy Management

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Managers Who Stalk the Staff All Day Long (Even Outside Work!) Instead of Managing Clients' Projects and Doing Their Real Job

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Managers Sitting on Their Hands While Moaning About Workers (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Managers Sitting on Their Hands While Moaning About Workers

Abuse Towards Staff

Sirius Open Source: The Brain Drain Begins

Sirius Open Source: The Brain Drain Started Years Ago (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source: The Brain Drain Started Years Ago

Very Deep in Debt

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Dire Financial State, Always Shooting the Messengers

Sirius Open Source Sinking in Debt (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Sinking in Debt

Witch-hunts by Managers

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Grievance Letters and Complaints About Bullying by Management (2019)

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Bullies Geeks (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Bullies Geeks

Health Toll

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Bad for People's Health

Staff Suffered Health Problems Due to Bullying by Management at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Staff Suffered Health Problems Due to Bullying by Management at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Security Breaches Upstream, Too

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Outsourcing Confidential Information to Spying Companies in Another Continent

In Sirius Open Source You Get Told Off — and Even Threatened! — for Minding Security and Privacy (personal site)

↺ In Sirius Open Source You Get Told Off — and Even Threatened! — for Minding Security and Privacy

Intolerance of Criticism

The Demolition Person at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Big Egos Ruin Small Company (personal site)

↺ Big Egos Ruin Small Company

Culture of Exploitation

Sirius a One-Way Relationship (or a Three-Way Relationship at the Top)

Exploiting and Attacking the Messengers (personal site)

↺ Exploiting and Attacking the Messengers

Circling Down the Drain

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Run Like a Failing Donald Trump Enterprise (in Debt and Faking It)

Too Late to Save Sirius Open Source (personal site)

↺ Too Late to Save Sirius Open Source

Aftermath of Security Breaches

LastPass Breach and More Collaterals, Beyond LastPass: How Sirius 'Open Source' Causes Security *[Headaches/Breaches for Clients (Without Even Telling Them!)

The Massive LastPass Breach Vindicates Me (personal site)

↺ The Massive LastPass Breach Vindicates Me

False Accusations, Framing People

Short-Term CEO at Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pretending to be Private Investigator, Falsely Accusing People in a Vindictive Fashion

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Stalking Staff Outside of Work (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Stalking Staff Outside of Work

Fit-up and Cover-up

Witch-hunts Backfiring: Koala Charities Leveraged by Sirius ‘Open Source’ as a Weapon Against the Innocent (When Koalas Die in Wildfires)

The Fit-up Job at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ The Fit-up Job at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Breaking Laws

Corporate Bullying Disguised as Mannerism and Professionalism

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Disregards the Rule of Law and Human Rights (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Disregards the Rule of Law and Human Rights

No Hiring Process

Tribalism at Sirius ‘Open Source’

A Toxic Company of Bedroom Politics (personal site)

↺ A Toxic Company of Bedroom Politics

Lying to Clients

Kangaroo Courts Against Voices of Morality (and of Compliance With Laws) at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Lies as Standard Business Practice (personal site)

↺ Lies as Standard Business Practice

Imposters as Leaders

Kakistocracy at Sirius ‘Open Source’: Running the Company Like a 'Hobby', Perpetually and Shamelessly by Hobbyist and Absent 'Management'

A Company That Suffocates Its Staff Like Sarin Gas (personal site)

↺ A Company That Suffocates Its Staff Like Sarin Gas

Passing the Costs to Others

“Successful Bankruptcy”: Management Running the Company… Into the Ground

When Pathological Liars Run a Company (personal site)

↺ When Pathological Liars Run a Company

Exploiting Uncharted Legal Territories

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Abuses Grey Areas

How Far Can a Company Push Workplace Regulations? (personal site)

↺ How Far Can a Company Push Workplace Regulations?

Devaluation of the Workforce

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Turned Workers Into Serfs/Slaves and Technical Work Into 'Bullshit Jobs'

Isolated and Gagged Workers at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (personal site)

↺ Isolated and Gagged Workers at Sirius ‘Open Source’

Pretence of Compliance

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Misleading the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Security

When ISO Becomes Meaningless Paperwork (personal site)

↺ When ISO Becomes Meaningless Paperwork

Summary and Complete Report

Full Report on Sirius ‘Open Source’ Inc./Limited/Corporation

Sirius Open Source Inc. as a Rogue Shell of a Failing Company (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Inc. as a Rogue Shell of a Failing Company

Attempts to Censor Facts

Bribery or Lies

Sirius Management Either Trying to Bribe Us (for Censorship) or Lying to Us, Thereby Profoundly Damaging the Company

Sirius Bribing, Lying, or Both (in an Effort to Silence Disgruntled Staff) (personal site)

↺ Sirius Bribing, Lying, or Both (in an Effort to Silence Disgruntled Staff)

Gagging Former Staff

Sirius Management Has Run Out of Feet to Shoot (It Keeps Getting Worse With Each Redundant Letter Sent to Former Staff)

Sirius Open Source Inc. (US) Against the First Amendment (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Inc. (US) Against the First Amendment

Anatomy of a Corporate Witch-Hunt

A Need to Deflect

When the Employer Becomes an Egoistic Stalker

How an Informal IRC Chat Became 'Evidence', Even When Nobody Was Named (personal site)

↺ How an Informal IRC Chat Became 'Evidence', Even When Nobody Was Named

Truth Hurts: Colleagues Sleeping With the Support Manager at Sirius Open Source Inc.

When the 'Issue' is People Who Speak About the Real Issue

Shooting the Messenger to Spite the Message (personal site)

↺ Shooting the Messenger to Spite the Message

Picking Scapegoats

When the Employer Becomes a Liar and a Bully

Picking on the Wife to Hurt a Critic (personal site)

↺ Picking on the Wife to Hurt a Critic

When the Employer Asks for 'Cool-off' After Attacking Innocent Staff (Which Backfires)

The Existential Mistake of Sirius Open Source: Attacking Innocent Workforce (personal site)

↺ The Existential Mistake of Sirius Open Source: Attacking Innocent Workforce

When the Employer Starts Acting Like an Obsessive and Jealous Ex-Boyfriend

Stalking of Staff and 'Fisher Price' Letters (personal site)

↺ Stalking of Staff and 'Fisher Price' Letters

Manufacturing 'Cases'

When the Employer Conflates a Two-Person Chat Outside Work With a Completely Unrelated Party

Intimidating Spouses to Hurt Company Staff (personal site)

↺ Intimidating Spouses to Hurt Company Staff

The Original Sin: When the Employer Lies About Clients in Order to Justify a Fishing Expedition and Openly Start a Witch-hunt

Commencing a Witch-hunt Based on False Pretences (personal site)

↺ Commencing a Witch-hunt Based on False Pretences

When the Employer Doesn't Grasp the Simple Fact That Lies Come Back at You (and Lying to Clients or Staff is a Very Bad Idea)

A Culture of False Pretences at Sirius Open Source Inc./Ltd. (personal site)

↺ A Culture of False Pretences at Sirius Open Source Inc./Ltd.

Stories From the Trenches

Failure to Pay Suppliers

When the Employer Doesn't Pay the Bills, So Customers Suffer Outages/Downtimes, Repeatedly Even

Lying to Clients is Crossing a Line (personal site)

↺ Lying to Clients is Crossing a Line

Like Elon Musk at Twitter, Sirius is Passing Financial Liabilities to Suppliers by Not Paying (Sirius Clients Suffer as a Result)

Sirius Open Source Inc. Shuffling Between Credit Cards to Barely Pay Bills (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Inc. Shuffling Between Credit Cards to Barely Pay Bills

Waste of Money, Loss of Control

When the Employer Doesn’t Understand or Grossly Underestimates AWS Capacity Issues (and a Story of Lost E-mail in Clown Computing)

Sirius 'Open Source' Wasting Almost 10,000 Pounds a Year on Hosting (That Could Cost Under 1,000 Pounds) (personal site)

↺ Sirius 'Open Source' Wasting Almost 10,000 Pounds a Year on Hosting (That Could Cost Under 1,000 Pounds)

Sirius 'Open Source': Let's Waste 50,000+ British Pounds on Amazon 'Clown' Bills Even Though We Already Have Our Very Own Servers and Racks

AWS Has Only Harmed Sirius (Financially at Least) (personal site)

↺ AWS Has Only Harmed Sirius (Financially at Least)

Severance Dodged

How Sirius Fell Deeply Into Debt and Split Itself Up Into Several Shells (Sirius Open Source Ltd., Open Source Inc., Corporation)

Sirius Open Source Ltd. Has Found Excuses to Avoid Paying Severance (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source Ltd. Has Found Excuses to Avoid Paying Severance

Bullying and NDAs

Microsoft Management Contacted Sirius Open Source CEO to Complain About My Writings in Techrights Years Before Bill Gates Paid Him

Getting Bullied by Management After Gates Foundation Pays Your Employer (personal site)

↺ Getting Bullied by Management After Gates Foundation Pays Your Employer

What Happened Months Before Seattle Police Sent Almost 3,000 Pages About Its Arrest for Pedophilia at Home of Bill Gates

Meme: We May Never Know What Bill Gates Paid Sirius Boss to Do in 2019 (Under a Strict Non-Disclosure Agreement)

Relatives of Managers, Not Suitably Qualified/Trained Staff

Overt Nepotism at Sirius: Not a New Problem

Sirius Staff: Managers' Relatives Who Don't Even Show Up on Time (Won't Apologise and Won't Get Punished, Either) (personal site)

↺ Sirius Staff: Managers' Relatives Who Don't Even Show Up on Time (Won't Apologise and Won't Get Punished, Either)

Nepotism Ruins Otherwise Good Companies, Even Free/Open Source Software Companies

How the 'Family Business' Mindset of Sirius Brought in Unqualified Workers (personal site)

↺ How the 'Family Business' Mindset of Sirius Brought in Unqualified Workers

Overt Nepotism at Sirius: A Fish Rots From the Head Down

Sirius Open Source: Company Used to be Run by a Couple (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source: Company Used to be Run by a Couple

Sirius in the Era of 'Husband and Wife' (or CEO and Director)

Sirius Died With the CEO's Marriage (personal site)

↺ Sirius Died With the CEO's Marriage

Privatised Workforce

When the Employer Asks for Help or Personal Favours Outside Work (and Staff Cannot Politely Decline Because of the Salary)

Family Assistant or Sirius Engineer? Can't Be Both. (personal site)

↺ Family Assistant or Sirius Engineer? Can't Be Both.

Favours in the Workplace: Employing Someone and the Strict Boundaries of Contracts

Doing the Boss Favours (personal site)

↺ Doing the Boss Favours

Dysfunctional 'Justice' System

Distortion of Timelines and Chronic Cover-up at Sirius 'Open Source'

Sirius Blunder: The Phone Does Not Work and There Are No Instructions (personal site)

↺ Sirius Blunder: The Phone Does Not Work and There Are No Instructions

Arrogant Management Won't Admit Its Mistakes and Sometimes Take the Mistakes Even Further to 'Prove' It Was 'Right' All Along

Bosses That Never Admit Mistakes (personal site)

↺ Bosses That Never Admit Mistakes

Comparing Technical Staff to Monkeys and Treating Them as Such

Network Operations Centre Staff Isn’t ‘Monkeys’ (personal site)

↺ Network Operations Centre Staff Isn’t ‘Monkeys’

When the Employer Doesn’t Value the Staff and the Wishes/Advice From Staff

Employer That Treats Staff Like Idiots (personal site)

↺ Employer That Treats Staff Like Idiots

Powerless Technical Staff

Sirius and the Straw Man

No Trade Union at Sirius 'Open Source' and No Respect for Unions, Either (personal site)

↺ No Trade Union at Sirius 'Open Source' and No Respect for Unions, Either

Sirius 'Open Source' Needed a Staff Union to Save the Company From Abusive, Corrupt Management

At Sirius ‘Open Source’ the Staff Became Voiceless (personal site)

↺ At Sirius ‘Open Source’ the Staff Became Voiceless

Going Sketchy

How Carbon Accounting Became a Cover for Fast-Languishing Sirius Open Source Ltd.

Sirius 'Open Source' Operating Like Rogue Business (personal site)

↺ Sirius 'Open Source' Operating Like Rogue Business

Go West or Go Rogue? Sirius is Finished/Broke.

Gates Foundation Flew My Employer to ‘Die’ in America (personal site)

↺ Gates Foundation Flew My Employer to ‘Die’ in America

Rogue Contract-Signing

Sirius With Its Likely Illegal Contract-Signing for a Company Worth One Pound

When Sirius Split Into 3 Companies (or Shells) Without Telling Staff (personal site)

↺ When Sirius Split Into 3 Companies (or Shells) Without Telling Staff

Everything Went to **** When Sirius Moved to the Same State as Microsoft (After Bill Gates Had Paid Sirius CEO)

A Deadly Trap of Secret Contracts at Sirius Corporation (personal site)

↺ A Deadly Trap of Secret Contracts at Sirius Corporation

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Management Lies to All the Technical Staff to Trap Workers in a New Contract a Month Before Creating a Shell in the US for Bill Gates

Likely Illegal Contract-Signing at Sirius Corporation (personal site)

↺ Likely Illegal Contract-Signing at Sirius Corporation

Sirius 'Open Source' Truly Rogue Since 2019 (Deceiving Everyone, Even Its Own Staff)

Lying Became the Norm at Sirius 'Open Source' Incorporated/Limited (personal site)

↺ Lying Became the Norm at Sirius 'Open Source' Incorporated/Limited

Hiding the Abuse (Non-Disclosure Agreements)

Example of Sirius Management Abusing Technical Staff That is Ill (Working in Spite of Sickness)

Sirius 'Open Source' Bullying Its Own Staff (personal site)

↺ Sirius 'Open Source' Bullying Its Own Staff

Sirius 'Open Source' a Victim of Mismanagement and Sellout

Non-Disclosure Agreements Are Typically Bribes (personal site)

↺ Non-Disclosure Agreements Are Typically Bribes

Fake Compliance as a Weapon

The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients

Sirius Sends All Its Data to American Firms (Even Clients' Passwords and Private Keys) (personal site)

↺ Sirius Sends All Its Data to American Firms (Even Clients' Passwords and Private Keys)

ISO Reality: The 'Security' Certifications Are Meaningless (Paid-for Papers)

ISO Certificates Are Junk (and Sirius Proves This) (personal site)

↺ ISO Certificates Are Junk (and Sirius Proves This)

Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic 'Bullshit Jobs' While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence

Misusing 'ISO' to Abuse Your Staff (personal site)

↺ Misusing 'ISO' to Abuse Your Staff

The ISO Train Wreck at Sirius 'Open Source'

How to Buy ISO Certification (It's Easy!) (personal site)

↺ How to Buy ISO Certification (It's Easy!)

The Inside(r) Story of ISO 'Certification' Mills

International Organization for Standardization is an Elaborate Scam (personal site)

↺ International Organization for Standardization is an Elaborate Scam

The ISO Delusion: Sirius Open Wash Ltd. and Medical Data/Projects at Risk/Peril

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Certification Does Not Assure Anything (personal site)

↺ International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Certification Does Not Assure Anything

ISO Certification Hardly Tackles Any of the Real Issues

ISO Certificates Are Like NFTs (Worthless Junk) (personal site)

↺ ISO Certificates Are Like NFTs (Worthless Junk)

A Shift to Proprietary Software

The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Understand the Company's Value Proposition (Building Systems) and Rejects Security

Sirius 'Open Source' Casualty of Mismanagement (personal site)

↺ Sirius 'Open Source' Casualty of Mismanagement

Companies Would Collapse Upon Abandoning Their Original Goals (That Attracted All the Productive Staff)

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Sabotaged From Within (personal site)

↺ Sirius ‘Open Source’ Sabotaged From Within

The ISO Delusion: Sirius Corporation Demonstrates a Lack of Understanding of Security and Privacy

Enhanced Worker Surveillance in Security Clothing? (personal site)

↺ Enhanced Worker Surveillance in Security Clothing?

Sirius Relegated/Demoted/Destined Itself to Technical Hell by Refusing to Listen to the Technical Staff (Which Wanted to Stay With Asterisk/Free Software)

Sirius Outsourced to Google and Everything Broke (personal site)

↺ Sirius Outsourced to Google and Everything Broke

The ISO Delusion/Sirius Corporation: A ‘Tech’ Company Run by Non-Technical People

The Time Sirius ‘Open Source’ Forced Staff to Install Microsoft Skype on Personal Devices (personal site)

↺ The Time Sirius ‘Open Source’ Forced Staff to Install Microsoft Skype on Personal Devices

Microsofters Inside Sirius 'Open Source'

Microsoft Skype is Not Open Source (personal site)

↺ Microsoft Skype is Not Open Source

The ISO Delusion: A Stack of Proprietary Junk (Slack) Failing Miserably

Abandoning Free Communication Software to Adopt Proprietary Bossware (personal site)

↺ Abandoning Free Communication Software to Adopt Proprietary Bossware

Not Tolerating Proprietary 'Bossware' in the Workplace (or at Home in Case of Work-From-Home)

A Tale of Bossware-at-Home in Company That Rejected Free Software (personal site)

↺ A Tale of Bossware-at-Home in Company That Rejected Free Software

The ISO Delusion: When the Employer Doesn’t Realise That Outsourcing Clients' Passwords to LassPass After Security Breaches Is a Terrible Idea

Bad Tools Make a Bad Company (personal site)

↺ Bad Tools Make a Bad Company

60 Days of Articles About Sirius 'Open Source' and the Long Road Ahead

Last Part in the Sirius 'Open Source' Series (personal site)

↺ Last Part in the Sirius 'Open Source' Series

Pensiongate

This section is very long and it became separate page, Crimes of Sirius Open Source.

Crimes of Sirius Open Source

The Exodus

CEO No More

Sirius 'Open Source' CEO Leaves Sirius

Sirius UK CEO Resigns (or Gets Sacked) and Completely Deletes His Whole Past With Sirius 'Open Source'

CEO of Sirius UK Continues to Purge Any Remnants of His Past With the Company (Trying Hard Not to Associate With It)

Where Did the CEO of Sirius Run Away to Last Month? A No-Content Company With 4,000 Pounds and No Employees.

A Crew of Two or Three

Company reduced to less than a handful of people

Meme: Charlie's Angels Have Probably Left Sirius

Engineers No More

Amid Sirius Exodus (CEO, Engineers, NOC Staff) Salaries Reduced Even Further

NOW: Pensions Trust Administration Team (Top Management) Gets Involved Amid Collapse of Sirius Corporation and Serious Embezzlement (Several Complaints, Several Victims) (personal site)

↺ NOW: Pensions Trust Administration Team (Top Management) Gets Involved Amid Collapse of Sirius Corporation and Serious Embezzlement (Several Complaints, Several Victims)

Nobody to Manage

The Person Who Looks After the Core Infrastructure of Sirius Open Source Has Left the Company

Will Anyone Be Left at Sirius to Turn the Lights Off? Sirius 'Open Source' Manager (Who Doesn't Use Open Source) Has Left the Building. (personal site)

↺ Will Anyone Be Left at Sirius to Turn the Lights Off? Sirius 'Open Source' Manager (Who Doesn't Use Open Source) Has Left the Building.

Sinking Ship

Analysing Who's Left at Sirius 'Open Source'

Less Than a Handful Left at Sirius 'Open Source' (personal site)

↺ Less Than a Handful Left at Sirius 'Open Source'

Last Gasp

New Series: The End of Sirius Open Source

Sirius Open Source is Collapsing (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source is Collapsing

Sirius Open Source Cannot Retain Staff and Clients (Many of the Remaining Ones Leave the Company)

Sirius Open Source: Very Little Staff and Clients Are Left Now (personal site)

↺ Sirius Open Source: Very Little Staff and Clients Are Left Now

Sirius 'Open Source' Still Listing as Staff ('Meet the Team') People Who Resigned Almost HALF A DECADE AGO

Upcoming Series: Recruitment Crisis at Sirius and Lying to Applicants

Sirius ‘Open Source’: The Tale of a Company That Loses All the Staff and Cannot Recruit Staff

Sirius 'Open Source' Recruitment is Dead (personal site)

↺ Sirius 'Open Source' Recruitment is Dead

When GNU/Linux Professionals Discover What Sirius 'Open Source' Has Really Become

Nobody Will Want to Work for Sirius ‘Open Source’ Anymore (personal site)

↺ Nobody Will Want to Work for Sirius ‘Open Source’ Anymore

Now It Happens in Canonical

Canonical, a Former Sirius 'Open Source' Client, is Likely Becoming More Like Sirius (Key People Leaving, Too)

Bad Management Ruining Canonical and Sirius 'Open Source' (personal site)

↺ Bad Management Ruining Canonical and Sirius 'Open Source'

No Reports in Companies House

Sirius 'Open Source' Cannot Confirm Signs of Life?

The Post Mortem

Upcoming Series: How Sirius Attacked Itself (and Its Own Staff)

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

The Plan That Never Materialised (Sirius Corporation in 2022) (personal site)

↺ The Plan That Never Materialised (Sirius Corporation in 2022)

The Sirius 'Open Source' Fantasy — Part II — Briefings About the Company

The Inside Story of Sirius 'Open Source' Pretending to be American (personal site)

↺ The Inside Story of Sirius 'Open Source' Pretending to be American

The Sirius 'Open Source' Fantasy — Part III — Staff Input (From Technical Workers) Not Accepted

How Sirius (Mis)Handled a Crisis in 2022 (personal site)

↺ How Sirius (Mis)Handled a Crisis in 2022

The Sirius 'Open Source' Fantasy — Part IV — Crushing the Workforce Means Crushing the Company

Pretending to be American Company When All the Staff is in the United Kingdom (personal site)

↺ Pretending to be American Company When All the Staff is in the United Kingdom

July 2023: Financial Report Grim

Insolvency: Debt of Sirius 'Open Source' Surged by About 20% in One Year (Not Counting Debt in Other Shells), Assets Fell by Nearly Half

SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD Report for 2022 is Out (personal site)

↺ SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD Report for 2022 is Out

Meme: Sirius UK and Sirius US Shuffling the Debt, Embezzling Workers (Stealing Workers' Pensions)

Shorts

Memes and Graphics

Meme: Sirius Open Wash Ltd.

↺ SiriUS No More

Meme: Sirius Actually Used to Promote Free/Libre and Open Source Software

Meme: Guilt by Association

Meme: Sirius Corporation: In A League Of Its Own

Meme: Another Month, More on Sirius ‘Open Source’

Immoral Practices

Meme: Job Ethics

Meme: Ultimate Sirius ‘Open Source’ Cover-up

Meme: The Koala Nightmare

Meme: You Can Punch, But the Joke is on You...

Meme: How to Destroy One's Own Company

Meme: It Was Never the Same After Bill Gates Paid the Sirius CEO Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

Cliques, Not Colleagues

Meme: Kings Instead of Open Consultation Among Peers

Meme: Sirius CEO to Staff: Any of You Can Apply for My Position, But I will be the One to Assess the Application

Meme: What’s Worse? Monopoly or Polygamy?

Meme: I Can Has Nepotism? Vouching for Romance.

Meme: The Nepotism Police

Meme: Qualifications Versus Sleeping With Debian Project Leader (or Sirius Manager)

Meme: Problems Will Be Solved When He Returns (Back Home)

"It Came From Above..."

Meme: Denying Security Breaches, Excuses No-one

Meme: Outsourcing to Spying Firms

Meme: Company Data All Over the Place, Footage of Employees Likewise

Meme: Sirius CEO: LastPass is Safe, According to LastPass Itself

Meme: Freedom is ‘Hobbyist’ Anyway

Poor Leadership

Meme: Sirius Open Source, Closed-Minded Bossing

Meme: Sirius Corporation Run by Dummies

Meme: Superheros Don't Need No Stinkin' Updates

Meme: Everyone Must Go

Meme: Dirty Tricks, But No Fix

Meme: Sirius Staff Always at the Bottom

Meme: Sirius Web Site: Rianne Runs Tux Machines. Sirius Stalker (Boss): Rianne Allegedly Runs Tux Machines.

Meme: Sherlock or Einstein Investigates...

Meme: Without Technical Staff There Won't Be Sirius Open Source

Meme: Sirius Management: I Can Do This All Day

Meme: It Wasn't Me

Meme: Listen to Your Workers, Avert Disaster

Meme: With Superheroes Like These…

Chronic Dishonesty

Meme: Never Admit Mistakes

Meme: Almost Nothing Gets Done at the Office (Management Pretending to be Busy)

Meme: What You Call a Person Who Lies a Lot

Meme: Tux Machines is Not a Crime

Meme: Database Down? Check Your Wallet.

Meme: ‘The Liar’ in the Headlines

Meme: Pressuring Staff Into Contract-Signing as Part of a Longstanding Pattern

Meme: Sirius is Not Open Source and Thugs Took Over the Company

Exploitation and Isolation

Meme: Squeezing the Life Out of Technical People

Meme: When Sirius ‘Open Source’ Can No Longer Pay the Staff, So It Starts Fabricating Timelines

Meme: 951,000 Tweets Are Okay, So Let's Dig Into 15 Years' Worth of Informal IRC Logs (in Social Channel, Two-Person Chats)

Meme: Make Sure You Make an Actual Case... Not a Lousy Punchline

Meme: Managers Who Attack Their Own Company, Treating Staff Like Enemies

Meme: When Egotistic People Make Egoistic Companies Staff Becomes Disgruntled

Meme: Stop Getting Ill!

ISOlation and ISO Fakery

Meme: ISO-Approved Bullying?

Meme: ISO Certification for Paying for Certificates on Time

Meme: ISO Selling 'Reputation' to Small Businesses (for a Large Fee)

Meme: Medical Data Sovereignty

Financial Issues

Engineers Are Too Expensive for Sirius 'Open Source'

Meme: Where Did the Money Go?

Meme: Nocturnal NOC Workers Uncompensated

Meme: Cannot Even Do Accounting Properly

Meme: It Doesn't Take an Accountant to...

Meme: Milking Technical People at Sirius ‘Open Source’ for Minuscule Salaries

Meme: When You Start Lying to Clients Because You're Broke

Meme: The AWS Bill is Here

Meme: Sirius Almost Half a Million Behind (2 Years Ago)

Meme: Slush Funds or Pocket Change From Bill Gates (Under NDA)

Disregard for Free Speech

Meme: Sirius Open Source Trying to Censor Factual Articles About Sirius Open Source

Sirius is Lying About a Contract in a Desperate Effort to Censor Factual Publications

Meme: Sirius Management Meeting

Meme: 'Never Miss a Good Chance to Shut up' — Will Rogers

Meme: Fully Allowed to Speak About Injustice

Meme: Punch the Messengers

Meme: Be the Fox

Meme: Cannot Speak to Friends If You Work at Sirius (Spouse Cannot Speak to Friends, Either)

Meme: Truth is Not Defamation

Systems Malfunctioning

Meme: Modern Phones

Meme: Cannot Get a Phone to Work… in 2022

Reality Checks

Web Site Faking Company Size

Sirius 'Open Source' Lists 15 People as Staff, But Only 6 Work in the Company

Sirius 'Open Source' Lists 49 Firms/Organisations as Clients But Only 4 of Them Currently Are

Office Manager in Company Without an Office

Sirius Has Already Had at Least 4 Company Titles/Names

Where Sirius ‘Open Source’ Originally 'Re'(Started) in 2017

When Sirius Misleads Its Clients About Who Works at Sirius the Lies Propagate Further

Lack of Resources

Evidence of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (or Sirius Corporation) Failing to Pay Pensions, Failing to Inform Staff, Not Responding to Staff

Sirius Corporation (Sirius ‘Open Source’) and Dodgy Accounting (personal site)

↺ Sirius Corporation (Sirius ‘Open Source’) and Dodgy Accounting

Social Media

When the Founder of Your Company Supports Donald Trump the Company Ends up Active in Fascist Platforms

Sirius Open Source Run by Bots (and People Unequipped to Do the Job)

Ironically, Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Become All About Open Source Magic Pixie Dust(™) and Is Rarely Releasing Code

By the Few

At Sirius ‘Open Source’, Decisions Are Made Exclusively and Secretly by the 'Inner Circle' (No Wider Participation Possible)

At Sirius Open Source the Bosses Are Convinced They're Superheroes (But They Make Giant Mistakes)

Creating Shells to Dodge Liabilities

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Looks Like It's Preparing for Insolvency/Administration

Sirius ‘Open Source’/Sirius Corporation: 11 Officer Resignations, Only One Left for the Past 4+ Years

CEO of Sirius 'UK' Uses Accountants as the Address of His Personal Business Too (Not Just Sirius Open Source/Corporation After 3 Address Rotations in Just 5 Weeks!)

Misleading Marketing

Reality Check: Sirius ‘Open Source’ is Not Open Source Anymore (and Most of the Remaining Staff Turns Down Open Source)

How Sirius Open Source Presents Itself in Microsoft's LinkedIn

Microsoft and Bill Gates Intervening

Sirius Open Source Inc. - A New Shell Created When Bill Gates Paid the CEO; Then the Company Immediately Turned Ugly and Hostile Towards Its Own Workers

Meme: 'DrAxe' Targeting People Inside Sirius Open Source

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