It’s important to understand: “unlimited time off” and variations is a mechanism companies in the US use to avoid paying earned income, or meeting statutory min

It’s important to understand: “unlimited time off” and variations is a mechanism companies in the US use to avoid paying earned income, or meeting statutory minimums. By not having a vacation “balance”, when you leave the company they don’t have to pay out the vacation time you earned while employed by them. It also means that they can reject/delay any vacation plans without worrying about having to pay it becoming expensive to pay it off in future, because again there’s no balance recorded of earned income. They then work to ensure that you do not/cannot actually use that unlimited vacation time in any way that would imply that it is unlimited.