Joe, you need to walk away and go get a job on the east coast or midwest somewhere. The B team is the rest of America: Geico, Wal Mart, GE, Kaiser, etc. You'll be washed up in a wave of gargantuan mediocrity, pettiness and bureaucracy, and it will kill you. The fear that is generated in the hierarchical management structure will quosh any shred of creativity or passion you may have brought with you. You will sorely miss the days of tech geeks and iconoclastic freewheeling culture, open doors, bean bags, tech bros and young managers with no clue. The alternative is so dark, I hope never to go back to it.