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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's a real thing at some companies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You have to guess how much you can get away with?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It becomes a negotiation every time you want to use it. It's terrible unless you're good at haggling over your own wellbeing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. If a company tells me that I get unlimited time off then tell me when the Christmas party is because I'm on PTO until then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My current job has unlimited PTO, but it’s not called unlimited. It’s called “discretionary” time off. And I think that’s an OK term for it. You don’t have a limit to your vacation/sick days, but you have to be a professional about it and not let things fall apart at work.

I’m fortunate in that we mostly work as a team and treat each other as human beings, even including the project manager and our direct management. So it can be alright at a good place. For example, we were asked our vacation plans for the quarter and I decided to add an extra day to a decent short break, and I gave myself a week long staycation next month.

But no limit also means no minimum, so of course the shittier places will use it to make things worse.