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When professional mentorship becomes exploitative

My mentor who helped me get this job keeps asking me to work late and cover for him and I do not know how to say no without seeming ungrateful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Gratitude and power imbalances can be weaponized to extract unpaid labor under the guise of career development.

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