Epixtar facing raps from employees.

Just read about it in Inq7.net early this morning. Several employees of call center company Epixtar Philippines are being demoted or asked to voluntarily resign prompting a labor dispute with the DOLE.

I remember about a year ago, a friend of mine who worked for Epixtar in Alabang was also asked for voluntary resignation. She fought it and went to DOLE to file a complaint. Arbitration lasted for several months and the call center company opted to do a settlement instead.

I think my friend got somewhere around a month or two of her salary on the settlement. We’re possibly looking at the same scenario here.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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15 Comments

Migs says:

19 years ago

So much for hiring pretty faces and getting naming rights to a building. They’re engaged in illegal telemarketing, right?
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Exactamento, Migs.
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mc says:

18 years ago

ei, i used to work at epixtar..
just a month ago..

they are doing great ryt now, but i dont really know anything about the issue..
do you guys hve any news or watsoever about epixtar?..
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dcw says:

17 years ago

I, too, work at Epixtar, in Duluth, Mn. I love it . so, where do you guys get off talking about sh*t you don’t even know what you are saying……
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Vicki says:

17 years ago

I worked at epixtar in duluth mn for 1 year and the people were nice. Honestly though its a scam on discover card holders. Also the head boss yelled at me for 30 min cause he wanted me to change my work scheldule with no notice for 3 days. I didn’t have day care set up for that and its not going to happen that fast with 6 kids. Larry the head guy ther says my job is more important then my children. I talk to h.r and said i want him to apologize or I havew to quit. The next morning I went in and told them I quit. Will not let any man talk down to me like that and direspect my children.
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Vicki says:

17 years ago

I know about epixtar they are shaddy they swear at you. Discover doesn’t know these scripts were reading they think we read of the computer. employes are incouraged to say enrollment softly. How ablout no rebutling in a norebutle state they. Epixtar tells you to. Honest people have a hard time working there. If you can’t pass your pee test they tell you to go talk to hollywood. One girl Payed a SUPERVISOR cause her pee was wrong temp. I’m telling you HONESTLY THEY ARE SHADDY.
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amy bennfield says:

17 years ago

i used to work at epixtar hir in philippines..and they are doing great ryt now… the people there were very nice. we are providing gud service to the people in america. epixtar employees are not SCAMMERS!! it will only become scam, when the customer is not listening to what we are saying. i love epioxtar!
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arnie says:

17 years ago

Epixtar is just like cipher solution SCAM!!!
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senemoron says:

16 years ago

sabi nyo lang yun…
hay be there para alam nyo ngyayari
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jazz says:

16 years ago

im now working at epixtar..and heck there’s nothing wrong going on with our company..and there’s no force resignation happening whatsoever..coz my TL stayed at epix for 4 years now…and she’s been doing well…BE THERe… so ul know what’s up!
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semon says:

16 years ago

Epixtar sucks and they are in ways SCAMMERS. The protections they sell on behalf of other companies is legit but they way Epixtar sells them… Maybe 1/100 actually want it but most get mislead to buyin it.
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Mark says:

16 years ago

GAGO YANG EPIXTAR!!

Worked there way back in 2005 and after a few months, I resigned.

And you know what guys, up to this day, yung final check ko (for my last salary, 13th month pay, etc..) HINDI KO PA DIN NAKUKUHA!! I’ve made thousand times of follow-ups for the schedule of release but they always giving me such a stupid reason…… “WALA PA KASI PONDO PARA DUON EH..” Hell with them!! They are still recruiting new people pero yung bayad nila sa mga naging empleyado nila ay WALA??!!??

I already file a case to DOLE against epixtar and their executives.. Will fuck them BIGTIME!!

Apologize for my “words”… Bwisit lang talaga ako sa company na yan!!!
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Mike W says:

15 years ago

no doubt about it epixtar is a SCAM house. If discover only knew what goes on there on a daily basis, they would be shut down in a minuite. Encouraged to make them think we are just mailing them something, they avoid the word enrollment like the plague! At least the Duluth office, i don’t know what goes on in other offices. And it’s not like the management dosen’t know. Larry, Mike Alseth and Cole all know what’s going on that’s all they care about is their numbers, not employees or Discovers customers.
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exsupe says:

14 years ago

Kapal ng mga mukha ng mga tao na nandun pa. Ung mga nasa admin. Ang kakapal ng mukha na pinabalik-balik ako nung buntis pa ako para sabihin ng pde ko na i-claim ang p… na backpay na yan. Me pa e-mail e-mail pa ang isang g… na ang pangalan ay john callajhan na matatanggap ko na daw pera ko ng december 6, 2008 pero ng magpunta ako dun, isa pang g… at kalahati yang lanie reyes na yan, sinabihan ba naman ako na wala daw akong check. ano? discover network health services? mga skamero! kahit sino papa-sign up ninyo kahit hindi yung meari ng establishment, sending info pa ang tactic. gusto i-cancel ng meari yung account? ano? pano ica-cancel yun kung ang inbound phone ay nasa 6th floor at walang sumasagot maghapon? di ba maco? ganyan magpatakbo si pong ng floor. nagkaron lang ng opisina sa 6th floor, feeling nya, tao na sya…. hahahaha! mga hindi nagbabayad ng sss, pag-ibig, philhealth pati unionbank loan na binawas na nila sa mga employees. KINAMKAM na nila lahat yun, palit panagalan lang para me corporate shield S..T!
Makakarma rin kayong may kagagawan nyan. Kelangan sa inyo, ma-media. Yun, di nyo kayang bayaran. Pati si Daddy Sammy, namatay na walang napala sa inyo. Sabi niyo, dead on arrival sa hospital, eh sa epix pa lang, kulay violet na yung tao. Sumapain kayong mga wala pang mga anak, puro retarded magiging anak ninyo sa dami ng sinuba ninyong mga empleyado! Lanie Reyes, Carl Baltazar, Ato atornihan ninyo… Mga manunuba lahat! Me araw rin kayo! Di na kayo aabot ng December 2010, tandaan ninyo yan! Papasara namin yan at ipapa-blacklist namin kayong lahat sa lahat ng trabaho sa call center! SSS hindi ni-remit, wala kayong alam? Tan_a ba kayo lanie at carl? Malamang…
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Cera says:

14 years ago

My boyfriend and I worked for them in Duluth. We were doing PAID political calling. They never paid us. The week before payday, they closed the business. So I say “WTF?!?!?!” We want our fxxxing money. >.<
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