Dear Lucy

Lucy Kellaway, FT columnist and associate editor, offers her solution to your workplace problems in a fortnightly column in the Financial Times. In this weekly online edition of her 'agony aunt' column, readers are invited to have a say too.

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A week or so in a health club would help me recover from the stresses of work

Although most of this is about personal vanity, there is also a work angle. I work for a media company, where the accent is on youth

The first is enjoyed by more members of staff while the second is an important plank of our wellness policy

Our British parent company has no women in senior positions and the only two openly gay managers left last year

I can’t help noticing that I am looking much older than a lot of my peers, all of whom have had work done. Is it a good investment?

Even though the company is performing very well, the amounts paid to top execs seem excessive

I am wondering if should I be a protester or supporter of his profession in the eye of the storm

She has just left university with a first in English and has applied to more than 100 jobs but has got only two interviews

Apart from his bad track record with spouses, he is bright and charismatic

Our pilot was educating us on his airline’s core values, boasting that the most important is passenger safety

When we are swimming side by side, he keeps trying – and failing – to overtake me

I get along with them in a superficial way but plan to outlast them both

I hate having my space invaded by strangers and I’m confused about the rules

I hear that my former boss is anxious to get me back

My esteem is tied up in the idea of my job as a lawyer and not as a mother

Friends and relations of senior employees are often hopeless

I want a way to own up to my dark past and show that I have a bright future

Social media sites make my eyes glaze over in boredom

His unethical behaviour raises questions about his judgment

Work has only one big problem – a German shepherd the size of a sheep

Dear Lucy

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