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I assume you're taking a dig at "unlimited vacation". You should really redirect your anger at your company culture. We have "unlimited vacation" where I work

I assume you're taking a dig at "unlimited vacation". You should really redirect your anger at your company culture. We have "unlimited vacation" where I work. Even a couple years back when things were not looking good most people took about 4wk which in practice is more like 5wk if you utilize the days off we get before/after major holidays. It's common for the H1Bs to pick a random month and use that time to go home to visit family. I took 3wk or so and it came up in my performance review and I was encouraged to take more if I wanted to. It's not just my team that's like this either. One of the many reasons I prefer to do tech somewhere other than the overpriced west coast meat grinders.

ghshephard 7y ago
Companies have "No Allocated" vacation (By no stretch of the imagination is it unlimited) - for exactly one reason - so they don't have to carry the pay-out liability on their books. But, an ugly side effect, is because there is no allocation, there is also no forcing function for people to "use-it-or-lose-it" - which also means when you are in crunch-time (which defines every startup I've ever worked for in the first 4-5 years) - it effectively means no vacation, excepting Christmas, which still seems to be untouchable (so far).