Xilinx is a slave driver

New / Eng
xoxoyo

New Eng

xoxoyo
Oct 22, 2018 44 Comments

Hey I’m posting this because my boyfriend works here. I’m hoping someone will see the injustice of this company. Don’t ever work for this shitty company or this shitty CEO.

Since acquiring a new CEO, Xilinx now requires employees to work Saturdays regardless whether or not they have work to do. This is really stupid because my boyfriend comes in 8:30am and has to work with India so he has to stay up often until midnight. We had a dinner last night (Sunday) and he couldn’t come because he has meetings with India. Even when he finished all of his work for the week and doesn’t have work on Saturdays, he’s still required to come in just to “twiddle his thumbs”.

Not having a proper weekend has created many problems for him. He is going through depression and since he’s still on visa, he feels like his hands are tied. He only plans to stay at this company until he has a proper visa.

He has been seeing a doctor and they advised him he should stop working on weekends. It’s the cause of his depression but he is afraid of his job so he doesn’t stop. I’m afraid for his emotional well being since he’s been working so much.

If anything happens to him because of overworking in this environment, I’m going to make sure to sue the shit out of Xilinx.

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  • Apple / Eng
    vxwh42

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    vxwh42
    Since when everyone is so fragile or sensitive? I feel your bf’s pain but blue collar workers regularly work on weekends and they seem fine. Don’t get me wrong I once worked for a company who did something similar but you have to understand that instead of feeling sad or depressed about the fact why not hustle and make a name out of himself. I have seen something similar here in bay area too where if life gets tough people get sad and sobby that life is hard for them. What happened when people/engineers were rock solid and if life got tough they got even more tougher and beat the shit out of that problem.
    Oct 22, 2018 5
    • Amazon
      zhUshxua

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      zhUshxua
      What? There’s a huge difference between manual labor and creative labor. My husband works a blue collar job and has to work occasional weekends all the time, but it’s not as taxing on him as it is on me when I work weekends because the type of work is totally different. That’s why piecewise manufacturing work doesn’t work in tech.
      Oct 22, 2018
    • New
      DvVM00

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      DvVM00
      typical blue collar job is compensated well for overtime / saturday. typical tech worker is exempt / salaried and is LOSING money working on saturday. leave this company now.i would rage quit.
      Dec 21, 2018
  • Google
    bobt2

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    bobt2
    Never work at a company that has too many xs or z's in it's name
    Oct 22, 2018 2
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    • New / Eng
      ☘️ guest

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      It’s completely legal and that’s why Xilinx can do it. They require ALL employees to work Saturday regardless of their work load. This is why it’s so screwed up.

      What’s so screwed up is that people who work Sunday and weekday evenings don’t have time to recharge. This is why he’s going through depression. It only takes a little bit but when you have to do it for a prolonged period of time, it affects people’s mental health.
      Oct 22, 2018
    • Amazon
      zhUshxua

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      zhUshxua
      RealityChek is correct. A lot of us at Amazon work weekends, but it’s rarely because management mandates it. I think that’s happened maybe twice to my team and it’s been because of emergencies.

      But, we have too much crap to be done. So people either learn to drop the crap or work all the time.

      For management to be mandating working Saturdays even when you have nothing to do is ridiculous! Way to lower morale and provide zero value.
      Oct 22, 2018
  • KLA-Tencor / Biz Dev
    kWSd31

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    kWSd31
    Is this legal? The EVP of the company sent an email officially requesting all the employees to work on saturdays and not to plan for thanksgiving and christmas. I am not kidding here, they have some balls putting this in an e-mail
    Oct 27, 2018 7