For the rest of the world, we just call them Reserved Stock Units.
The OPs point still stands regardless; unless for whatever reason you think you'll get 1) a windfall of stock grants that are 2) calculate from some actual monetary amount divided by the current stock price, you want the value of your stock to go up.
> converted to normal stock, where you can sell on the market for cash?
With the smaller Google-specific "well but" limit that insider trading rules restrict employees from trading in the company stock except for narrow trading windows after the company's quarterly reports.
The OPs point still stands regardless; unless for whatever reason you think you'll get 1) a windfall of stock grants that are 2) calculate from some actual monetary amount divided by the current stock price, you want the value of your stock to go up.