Flipboard 2025 Careers

A compelling workplace-advice article exploring what to do when a boss demands unethical behavior—like faking a family death to attend a conference undercover. This engaging guide helps employees navigate toxic leadership, understand complicity, set boundaries, and protect their professional integrity with humor, insight, and practical strategies.

You walk into work, and before you’ve even logged in, someone comments on your outfit. Another chimes in with a “joke” about your body. Everyone laughs, except you. It’s 2025—shouldn’t we be past this? Spoiler: we’re not.

Workplace habits Baby Boomers once saw as normal can now trigger complaints, discipline, or dismissal. See which outdated office behaviors could put modern employees’ paychecks and careers at risk.

For Baby Boomers in the 70s, these were the restaurants you went to after shopping, on family road trips or when nobody felt like cooking. Some even counted as a fancy night out. Today, mention their names to a Millennial and they won't know what you're talking about. How many do you remember? And also, if you could—which ones would you bring back?

You walked into the mall with money in your pocket and no plans to spend all of it. A few hours later, the money was gone, and somehow you needed to go back next weekend. These stores had a lot to do with that. How many do you remember?