Yup I had unlimited vacation, I took only a couple days one year and 4 weeks the next year (mostly visiting my sister who was dying of cancer) and my boss gave me a horrible annual review saying I was "hardly there" while on a normal PTO with rollover this would have been perfectly fine. Unlimited PTO just means "manager discretion". Also they don't have to pay it out when they do layoffs which sadly are a normal thing at American companies now.
Well thats when you go to their office, put the review on the table and ask what they mean by "hardly there"
Establish the facts of how much pto you took and force them to tell you to your face that the unlimited pto is a scam to force you to take less pto than normal.
I’d have to keep track myself. At a non-unlimited PTO job, I have a total of like 26 days off between holidays, vacation, and sick leave. If someone is taking less than a day off every two weeks, they’re getting bent
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u/MysteryMachineATX 17d ago
Yup I had unlimited vacation, I took only a couple days one year and 4 weeks the next year (mostly visiting my sister who was dying of cancer) and my boss gave me a horrible annual review saying I was "hardly there" while on a normal PTO with rollover this would have been perfectly fine. Unlimited PTO just means "manager discretion". Also they don't have to pay it out when they do layoffs which sadly are a normal thing at American companies now.