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Letter: A way to avoid being taken for granted

Published 17 September 2025

From Jane Pearn, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, UK

Regarding David Robson’s piece on how bosses tend to exploit their loyal employees: in my career in the National Health Service, I often worked with newly qualified therapists who didn’t feel they could say no to anything managers asked and were in danger of early burnout. I advised them to say: “Yes, I’d love to take that on(23 August, p 44). Instead of what?”

Issue no. 3561 published 20 September 2025

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