Furthermore, in companies that offer actual paid vacation, you are typically obligated to use some each year, which means when you book your time off, it is almost unheard of for a manager to claim you are actually needed in the office due to "crunch time" etc....which could very well screw up the company's tax accounting.

Meanwhile, in the scam world of "unlimited PTO", I have found it is common for managers to ask that employees delay or reschedule vacation.

Anyway this whole subthread illustrates that many HN readers lack basic financial literacy...they don't even understand their own compensation

Unlimited PTO is just one more way the Suits outsmarted the nerds