She used up all her vacation days and sent out a heart-breaking note to all her contacts asking us if we’d consider donating some of our PTO to her, since she was living paycheck-to-paycheck and couldn’t lose this job because of the health insurance. I was allowed to donate vacation time but not the weeks of sick time I had accrued. She died a few months later, and I still think about the inhumanity of this system and society.
She used up all her vacation days and sent out a heart-breaking note to all her contacts asking us if we’d consider donating some of our PTO to her, since she was living paycheck-to-paycheck and couldn’t lose this job because of the health insurance. I was allowed to donate vacation time but not the weeks of sick time I had accrued. She died a few months later, and I still think about the inhumanity of this system and society.