Title: I&#x27;m working at a company with lots of dot-commie perks including an open vacation policy. It seemed great on paper when I joined, I actually took a 40% salary cut for the promise of more vacation and freedom to live abroad and work from everywhere.<p>At my company, however, it&#x27;s feeling like just another typical silicon valley sweat shop. Nobody who isn&#x27;t an executive seems to take any vacation days. For the most part &quot;unlimited vacation&quot; means being able to work from home because you have errands to run or you broke your ankle.<p>Every attempt I&#x27;ve made to take vacation days has been met with the resistance of, &quot;You have taken more vacation than anybody else in the team&quot;.  
I&#x27;ve taken 4 days off for vacation, and 2.5 days off to ease the jetlag when I flew home to Turkey from San  Francisco.<p>Recently I tried to take off 1&#x2F;2 a day for my birthday, and I again was given this same argument. I politely reminded my boss that I make $50k&#x2F;year less than anybody else in our engineering team, and that we have an open vacation policy.<p>After that conversation I began looking for a new position.<p>I&#x27;m curious, what are your experiences with companies who have open vacation policies? Are you &quot;allowed&quot; to take vacation days, or does it just feel like a scam to prevent you from actually taking time off?
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