Flipboard 2025 Careers

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.

Letting it slip to a coworker that you got a big raise could backfire on you in more ways than one.

A payday loan between coworkers sounds harmless until payday never arrives. Six months can feel like six years when a borrowed five hundred bucks keeps hanging over your desk like a flickering fluorescent light. You still show up, answer messages, tackle projects, and pass each other by the break-room coffee pod carousel, but the silence around the debt grows louder. The tension can feel almost physical—like the room tightens an inch every time your coworker walks in. Money issues don’t stay in wallets for long; they seep into workplace dynamics fast. That’s why a smart, steady plan protects your cash and your peace.

If you're about to go on maternity leave from your job and not planning to return afterward, you're far better off not quitting right away.

Every workplace has a moment when something feels slightly off, and the more it happens, the more your instincts start tapping you on the shoulder. Tip pooling is one of those situations that often begins quietly. At first, it sounds like a simple team effort. But then a curious detail appears. Management takes a portion for themselves and expects no one to question it. That is usually when confusion turns into frustration, and suddenly everyone wants to know whether the arrangement is fair or even legal. The answer is not always simple, yet it becomes clearer once the rules and boundaries are laid out in plain language.

Decades and centuries before switches and automation shaped daily routines, entire professions solved problems modern life no longer notices. These jobs were practical and once essential, but each disappeared for a reason tied to progress or convenience.

Corporate politics drains energy and wastes time. Some careers let you skip the drama entirely. They reward technical skills and measurable results over office relationships. And the data from Salary.com shows these roles pay well too.

You stayed home to raise the kids and keep the household going. Now that you’re facing divorce, your husband argues you didn’t earn half the assets. . You have legal rights and options to a fair settlement.

You were living in the home as part of your job caring for an elderly woman until she passed away. Now her adult children want you out of the house in a week. We look at ways you can handle this stressful situation.

A humorous yet insightful guide for workers dealing with a doomsday-obsessed boss. Learn how to spot red flags, set boundaries, navigate HR, protect your mental health, and decide whether it’s time to leave a workplace where apocalypse prepping has gone too far.

This guide breaks down what the law actually says about lie detector tests in the workplace, how to tell if your rights are being violated, and what you can do next if things at work have taken a strange turn.