I totally agree that mentors and mentees should be free in their choice with whom they partner. So if you had bad experience with your mentors it should be easy

I totally agree that mentors and mentees should be free in their choice with whom they partner. So if you had bad experience with your mentors it should be easy and penalty free for you to change. On the other hand, I would decline to mentor you: > I am extremely suspicious of any such one-on-one arrangements when there are no written records and opportunities for challenging unfair assessments formally. I'm not interested in wasting my time with a mentee on bureaucracy instead of actually mentoring. Luckily, there are many different workplaces we can pick from, so your need for proper documentation can be satisfied while my wish to use the time for mentoring is also satisfied (possibly in different places). > I can already predict that there will be more people who think they can mentor than people who think they can improve. I love to be a mentee. It usually feels better to learn than to teach. It also increases your value more. I quite often struggle that I don't have a mentor (and it is a good reason to change workplace). As compensation, I frequently send out mentees to learn new stuff and teach it to me.