Someone likened the cult of positivity, to a trend in Silicon Valley employers that emerged over the past decade or so. The trend of offering employees, unlimi

Someone likened the cult of positivity, to a trend in Silicon Valley employers that emerged over the past decade or so. The trend of offering employees, unlimited & unrestricted vacation time. Some people argued - and I fully agree with them - that while on paper the offered vacation time is unlimited, what it really meant in action was that your vacation time was unlimited, * contingent on your readiness to accept any work load, shoved to your plate, equivalent or more in volume, that was displaced from the time you were gone. * contingent on your willingness to accept blame for any "fires" that they had to put out in your absence, emerging from you not being there in your full working capacity. and other stuff that went without saying and is implied in such matters. So not even close to unlimited vacation in that sense. This also meant employees feared taking anytime off because of all the implied risk. Sometimes not even the amount of vacation they would take if they had clearly defined paid time off. So it was a practice that was thoroughly hollow and false, even in intent. Goes without saying, we need a lot less of this kind of faux positivity, masquerading in our lives.