These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories.

If we work together we can stay one step ahead of the orphan crushing machine!

Parent, forced to choose between poverty and caring for child with cancer, gets a helping hand from coworkers when their employer would just let them starve.

The concept of limited sick days is still so wild for me ... if you're sick, you're sick.

Employers don't understand (or want to understand) the concept of "Lawful evil", where just because someone is out of sick days doesn't mean you aren't a monster for keeping them from their cancer-stricken daughter.

What is terrifying is journalists who work at news agencies can't tell the difference between a heartwarming altruism story and a slip through the cracks dystopian horror story.

Ah yes that good news of the orphan crushing machine being down for at least one hour....

That's what I don't understand. Europe is capitalist like the US, never the less, such cruelty and greed from the employer are simply unheard of.

I'm tired, boss.

Simply being able to swap sick days is such a foreign concept to me. How does that even work or make sense? I understand being allowed to take a day or several off because you are sick without having to hand in a doctor's note. So those are your sick days. YOUR sick days. The fact that you can transfer these or use them as currency is just baffling to me. I guess this is some MUH-FREEDOM joke that I'm to European for to understand because I don't get it.

Anywhere I’ve taught, my email has been inundated with requests for sick leave sharing. Depending on where you teach, you have to pay for your sub if you run out of leave.

Some one not only forbid their time off but then allowed other people to use their time and say yup that solved the issue and that person or persons is a cunt/s

Why doesn't the employer just give them the fucking sick days

#fuckingcapitalists

"colleagues peer pressured into risking own income if being sick"

If this is a public school there is not a lot of evil and greed happening. It's just people doing their best with very meager funds and budgets they can't change without board approval. If this issue is important to you, please take a second to learn about the fiscal year 2024 appropriations and consider contacting your federal legislators here.

Well damn, I sure hope none of his "fellow educators" gets sick

It can be both though. It's ok to appreciate and find hope in witnessing common people voluntarily coming to the aid of a fellow person in need while also acknowledging the failures of a system that help create the need for those goodwill actions by common people.

Did he not know about FMLA?