I'm in a similar boat, its not "unlimited time off", its "we trust you to take what you need". I personally feel that I do pretty well with this system. I proba

I'm in a similar boat, its not "unlimited time off", its "we trust you to take what you need". I personally feel that I do pretty well with this system. I probably take 6-8 weeks off per year, usually no more than 2 weeks at a time. It's generally well planed, especially for the periods that are more than a day or two long. Theres only a couple of other people that take as much time as me, but I've never noticed any ill will towards any of us from either management or coworkers. (I think I take a healthy amount of vacation and that my preformance yhe rest of the time reflects this.) Also worth mentioning, I'm usually somewhat available during vacations if something comes up - for example, I spent Christmas eve debugging a couple of years ago.