7 Reasons Your Job Isn’t As Bad As You Think It Is

Consultant and former tech executive Steve Tobak is sick of all your belly-aching. He writes in a new piece for CBS MoneyWatch that a big reason we’re miserable at work is not that office conditions are worse than ever, it’s that social media creates an echo chamber of complaints. So maybe we’re underpaid, we’re unenthusiastic, and we hate our jobs. It’s not that these complaints aren’t legit, Tobak writes. “So what’s my beef? Just this: It’s been that way forever.” He came up with this list of seven modern myths about the workplace.