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In the end, you're probably going to have to vote with your feet, as in, move jobs. Moving business addresses is not trivial, and real estate in S. San Jose, though also insanely expensive, is going to be substantially cheaper than mid-peninsula. Not sure adding the equivalent of one FTE in increased rent (which is how some may see it) is going to sell to your founders, though if you're going to make the case, point out they're already burning more than one full-time equivalent in added commute times. Your curtailed ability to socialize can be seen as a feature, not a bug, even if that's pretty cynical. A lot of people are also what you might call "pathological commuters" whereby they enjoy staring at brake lights on the 101, which gives them what they consider a respite from chaotic home and work environments, and a chance to listen to radio or books on tape, or catch up on phone calls. I'd say the evidence lends itself pretty strongly that that's the kind of people you're working for. Unless you've already asked and asked and the owners are getting testy from all the asking, try putting together a proposal as a group effort. Get lots of colleagues and coworkers to put their names on the proposal, and focus on the owners' upside and how you've figured out all the details- new location can be up in running by such date, new address is bigger and cheaper and in a better location, etc. In the end though, it's their company, and it's your life, and the former seldom budges an inch for the latter. |