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DEAR DEIDRE: I’m infatuated with a younger woman at work.Even though I’m happily married, I think about her constantly, and I don’t know how to

DEAR DEIDRE: A former colleague verbally attacked me and threatened to destroy me.In front of the rest of the warehouse team he announced that if I di

DEAR DEIDRE: Even though I have lots of qualifications, I can’t find a job.My CV has a big gap in it because I’ve spent the last 10 years caring f

DEAR DEIDRE: AM I betraying my boss if I move to another job?I’m a 40-year-old man and have worked in the same office in customer relations for over

DEAR DEIDRE: A new work colleague has me completely bewitched - despite being happily married with kids.Every day I wake up thinking about this woman,

DEAR DEIDRE: SUDDENLY my husband wants a major change in career and he hasn’t thought to talk to me about it.He works for a landscape gardening comp

I’M desperate to ask out my colleague, but I also work with my ex-partner.I’m a man in my forties and was with my ex for five years.We’re still

DEAR DEIDRE: The woman I’ve fallen for is perfect in every way – except she’s my boss.I don’t know if I should tell her how I feel. I think sh

DEAR DEIDRE: To feed her drug habit, my former manager has been stealing money from the restaurant where I worked.I caught her doing a line of cocaine

DEAR DEIDRE: I’m so jealous of my mates and colleagues. Their lives are full of drama involving secret lovers, break-ups, threesomes and numerous ri

DEAR DEIDRE: A guy who fancies me at work slapped me hard on the bottom after a training course. Now he stands to lose his job.He’s 49 and I’m 37.

DEAR DEIDRE: I’d love to get a job in a bank like I used to have, but I can’t even get an interview.I’m a woman of 58 and took early retirement

DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN I retired from the NHS my wife was so excited to finally have me to herself, so she wasn’t too pleased when I became obsessed with

DEAR DEIDRE: My husband has been constantly swearing since he started working in an all-male environment.I’m 43 and he’s 46, and he got a new job

DEAR DEIDRE: My work colleague is using deep fake images of me to try and con me out of three grand. She says if I don’t pay up by the end of the w

DEAR DEIDRE: My coworker caught me sleeping with my married male boss - now he’s demanding I cough up £3000 or he’ll make sure I lose my job.I’

DEAR DEIDRE: My colleagues hate my accent and pressurise me about my political views because they know I voted to leave when it came to the Brexit vot

DEAR DEIDRE: How do I break the news to my boss that all of his employees dislike him?I’m a 42-year-old woman and after working for a marketing comp

DEAR DEIDRE: After 15 years, I met up with an ex and now all the feelings have come flooding back – but there is something dodgy about him.We met on

DEAR DEIDRE: NO matter what I do I can’t shake the jealousy I have over my wife’s friendship with her colleague.While I know that I’m probably b

DEAR DEIDRE: It was meant to be my perfect job, but has turned into a nightmare.My employer expects me to work far more than my contracted hours and w

DEAR DEIDRE: I’ve fallen head over heels for a woman at work but I’m not sure how to tell her how I feel.I adore her and the last thing I want to

DEAR DEIDRE: At work, I feel like I’m the only one who hates all of this “woke” culture even though, from what I’ve been told, most people sha

DEAR DEIDRE: My colleague is defrauding the benefits system and I am so angry.I feel like reporting him to the authorities and walking out of my job.I

DEAR DEIDRE: DURING the summer I had an incredible time helping out in a camp in America. But now I feel depressed.At the beginning, I hated the work