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

astral_avocado@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• robotopera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well you can’t do that cuz if you give one employee sick days for their dying child every employee with a dying child is going to want sick days and that might impact the shareholders.

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  • dukk@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a school?? Who are the shareholders?

    The fact that a school has to be pulling this kind of stuff…

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    • tinysalamander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Schools have budgets decided by board members who are elected by the taxpayers; and taxpayers don’t like tax hikes! Thus we have the orphan crushing machine.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  or government provide better health care & more support to a family with a sick kid? according to the news, they have to travel 100 miles to get the treatment

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