> I've worked at two companies where people pooled vacation time for sick co-workers who had already been granted extended leave time by the company way past th

> I've worked at two companies where people pooled vacation time for sick co-workers who had already been granted extended leave time by the company way past the company norm when they got cancer. If that is not an act of friendship what is it? It is a sad attempt at compensating for a missing social safety net.