It looks like Tate Publishing needs to add a new button to its homepage. It should read – “I am a screwed over Filipino employee who is owed money.”
According to documents we obtained through our new Filipino Ogle Mole Network, Tate Publishing apparently owes $4,841,567 Philippine peso in wages to 220 employees (a.k.a. human beings) who worked at the company’s Philippines office in December of 2016. According to the Google currency calculator, that’s nearly $100,000 US dollars.
Check out the documents. They look very official:
At this point, there were about five or six pages of employee names along with how much each individual was owed. It concluded with this order:
On behalf of everyone in Oklahoma, I’d like to offer my condolences to all the Filipino employees who were ripped off by this “Christian” company. This isn’t how most Oklahomans do business. We wish you the best of luck in recovering your wages. Hopefully Ryan adds a new button on the Tate website for you very soon.
Trump claims his regulatory rollback will provide relief for small business, so, small business expert that he is, Ryan Tate will no doubt soon be back on top with all his woes behind him. This mess can probably be blamed on the Obama administration.
This is all a big misunderstanding by unfortunates who don’t understand the vanity publishing business. The publisher doesn’t pay you to work for it. You pay the publisher to work for it.
It looks like Tate Publishing is winding down operations and closing up shop. Check it out on the web.
Evidently Tate is making its authors buy the rights of their books back from Tate for $50. Link to the story is below.
From their dead website “Our primary commitment at this time is to find a new home for all authors and artists we represent, and ensure that each one has the best possible opportunity for success.”
Seems pretty Tate of them.
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/lincolnton-author-struggles-as-officials-investigate-publisher/497199485