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

School days/Sirius: Tech staff hit by boss



Summary: The 'UK' manager at Sirius 'Open Source' decided to start stalking an innocent worker, trying really hard to somehow associate her with things she wasn't involved in (probably to avoid paying compensation as the company was rapidly collapsing)

THE past two parts explained how the company communicated with myself and with my wife, basically taking extreme action before even bothering to contact us.



Then, the company was writing the same letters to both of us (both to Roy and to Rianne, albeit separately) like it's the same person, sometimes forgetting to even change the names in the letters, which contained totally irrelevant paragraphs. Lazy management. Lousy skills. They didn't even bother distinguishing! We're not talking about legally-valid letters here; those weren't based on law but a bunch of gobbledegook with endless reuse or copy-paste of stuff, not even offering much original content and just following mindless and legally-inapplicable portions. We've already shown some parts while hiding more personal parts. The company did not bother truly customising the letters and, as noted here before, forgot to change the names sometimes! How awful! No wonder the company keeps losing clients!! Quality has fallen sharply.

"Quality has fallen sharply."What we're dealing with here is a very cheaply-made and very poorly-executed hatchet job.

There was no need to produce any letters. On the surface one can see they just want to extrajudicially attack staff. No need to print any letters either as that would waste paper. Not good for the environment... the company likes to pretend to be green by not printing things... while the CEO drives around in a car that's like 4 times bigger than what's needed. In more recent years one got the impression he can no longer afford even a shirt!

In an upcoming video we plan to show Rianne's letter. We'll show it's folded (because the CEO does not have a suitable envelope or cannot afford one). Maybe he chose to fold everything to save envelope money (stamps) given that Roy's letters weren't folded.

The weirdest thing is, the CEO was becoming rather creepy and spooky, spying on us and especially on Rianne, taking screenshots of her photographs like a scene from Jeepers Creepers. No return address on the envelopes; maybe he lives in some lair/cave somewhere.

"On the surface one can see they just want to extrajudicially attack staff."The writing style is also quite primitive. He used proprietary software (Google) and pasted (pushed through) screenshots of text into that. Any moron knows that the way to process a PDF is, copy text, don't make screenshots of text! It's like a newbie authored the letter/s, so in the evidence (so-called 'evidence') is a bunch of screenshots with remarks that mostly take out of context what's in the screenshots. Those screenshots show stuff like an informal chat about us depositing coins (change) in the bank. How on Earth is that even of relevance? Is he trying to mock people who use physical currency instead of Apple stuff?

Speaking of Apple stuff, we don't suppose he wants the Cisco IP phone (they recently decided to replace all of them with proprietary spyware anyway), so we don't know whether to toss it in the bin or find a way to recycle it. It's too large for any envelope currently in our home and we don't know where to send it. Mr. Big Shot Boss, send us a clue. Is it too "old" and "hobbyist" for you to accept? It's not Apple and it's not "clown computing", so we're left to assume it's "obsolete". That's the way you think anyway. Never mind if this phone was always far more reliable than the "clown computing" garbage you brought to the company and insisted on even after it had failed all the workers; again and again and again...

The letters contain totally irrelevant text and some facts you don't like to hear about the company you claim to lead. You've mostly oppressed this past year. That's no true leadership.

So what to do with those letters you mailed us? Should they be treated like pathetic love letters from a long-lost boyfriend, who maintains an unhealthy obsession? Should we tear it all and throw it in the trash can? It's small enough to fit in the bin, but maybe it's better to keep that as a souvenir. You have been wasting paper, time, and toner, reinforcing the idea or the perception you don't know how to run a company. You were introduced to us as a person who had created a successful company, but public records show just a one-man company or a defunct two-person company (dissolved a decade ago). So either we're blind to some very big company that doesn't bother mentioning you or we're dealing with a pathological liar who relishes in high self-esteem.

"He used proprietary software (Google) and pasted (pushed through) screenshots of text into that. Any moron knows that the way to process a PDF is, copy text, don't make screenshots of text!"We can't help wondering why the CEO felt a need to send a physical copy of his letters. Maybe because that's a culmination of several weeks of him stalking people. Those letters are like 'trophies' to him, even if about 90% of them are mindless screenshots of his proprietary Web browser (he's like some very dumb uncle who includes the whole browser in the screenshot instead of just framing the contents of the page). Well, perhaps we should be thankful for these physical (hard) copies because a) we don't need to print it ourselves; we can bring it to lawyers easily. b) I have something for my recording (to show in the upcoming video). Cheers!

Anyway, there was no need to send it, I have all the logs and can access things with full context, unlike some lousy screenshots that lack a corresponding URL. Did you ever think any labour tribunal would deem a two-person chat (or screenshot thereof) admissible? Maybe that's rather revealing; the company is now run by rookies.

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