"Great news everybody, in light of the pandemic, CoolCorp will be switching to an Unlimited Vacation policy! We hope everyone takes advantage of this new employee-friendly perk, but yes, you still need manager approval and you need to make sure your work is covered while you're gone, enjoy!"

I had 5 WEEKS of PTO, and used to bank (and get paid out for) about 4 of those weeks every year. Goddamnit, what a scam

"you need to make sure"

WTF are managers for?

Never expect a company (or government, or really, anyone) to do something for your benefit.

If they’re willingly doing it, especially on their own, it’s to benefit themselves. Any benefit to you is just a lure, aka a sales strategy / talking point.

Unlimited PTO means they don’t have to pay you for unused vacation, and it also allows them to guilt you for any time off you do take. And if that time off hurts the company, it isn’t poor management anymore, it’s your fault and therefoer goes on your performance review so you’re less likely to get a raise, and more likely to get fired and replaced with someone who’s more of a pushover.

But! You can’t complain because it’s “unlimited PTO” and that sounds good. Also, explaining the almost-complex reasoning of the scam is simply too much to expect them to follow, and they would just call you a conspiracy theorist and fire you for not being a team player.

Isn’t this just wonderful?

@Root yes, it's just fabulous. At the very least I would have expected the terms in my offer letter to be honored for more than a year, but maybe I'm just an optimist 😕

@dumfrog Double standards there, too, unless you get an attorney/lawyer involved. 🙄

A company I worked for still owes me a $5k bonus and a retroactive 5% raise for six months of work, all spelled out in my hiring contract. I will never see any of it.

@Root yea, in this case it's all legal, just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Luckily the open market offer's equitable recourse..(for plenty of other reasons) I'm starting at my new gig in a couple weeks

@dumfrog congrats 😊