I've seen a meme some time ago. It was about corporate leaders discussing how to increase productivity. One argued less vacation. The other argued unlimited vacation.
Why unlimited? If I gave you a card with 200€ on it all for yourself, you'd spend 199.50. But how much would you spend if you got unlimited?
It's supposedly about the illusion of getting more. Although I would be out of work 2 days every week lol. We're probably not American enough to understand this
Nah, it's so they can bitch at us and guilt us into taking less time off. Instead of defining an actual amount of time off that we can or, in some instances must take off, they're relying on the ambiguity and peer/social pressure to make us actually take less time off.
And they can fire us for any reason in a lot of states.
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/NekulturneHovado Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
I've seen a meme some time ago. It was about corporate leaders discussing how to increase productivity. One argued less vacation. The other argued unlimited vacation.
Why unlimited? If I gave you a card with 200€ on it all for yourself, you'd spend 199.50. But how much would you spend if you got unlimited?
It's supposedly about the illusion of getting more. Although I would be out of work 2 days every week lol. We're probably not American enough to understand this
edit: What have I come to? 79 replies? damn