This is crazy. Next thing you're going to tell me the employees actually keep their full salaries for themselves and don't give you back most of it?
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Amateurs! Good employees immediately deposit 2/3rds of their monthly income into their landlord's account and try to hold on to the final 3rd for dear life for a full month, only to fail two weeks in.
This is precisely why "unlimited" PTO is a fucking scam. When it's a set amount in writing as part of your compensation package, they're literally committing a crime if they never let you take it. If it's more nebulously worded, it's easier to blame the demands of the job, as though those aren't defined by the same people jerking you around on benefits. And they have proven time and time again that they will take everything from you if given the chance.
While you are correct, the actual reason this started is much simpler.
CA has a law that all unused vacation must be paid out at separation. All the silicon valley CEOs loophole this law by claiming unlimited PTO, therefore no payout because nothing is accrued.
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I pay them every month but instead of keeping their salaries, they spend it all! Meaning I have to keep paying them! Absurd.
If you are going to steal the value I create why would I would harder then necessary for you to get richer through my exploitation.
There are people who can work without any time off. Met some in academia: total freaks who only need a lab and like-minded individuals.
As much as I love my job, I love doing jack fucking shit nothing even more. Damn skippy I'm using all my vacation hours (especially since I now know that they expire when the year flips and I don't get to just accumulate them for when I actually want to use them).
Oh simple answer Mr. Super CEO; because no matter how you dress it up, the bottom line is NO, people do NOT love their jobs. Shockingly, people do not derive joy from using their effort to benefit someone else, in this case YOU.
"If you really enjoy accruing my capital as a wage slave, why would you want time away from it?"