This sounds like you have no clue of who the guy is. I don't think there's a single company or start-up that wouldn't hire him. You're talking about a guy who

This sounds like you have no clue of who the guy is. I don't think there's a single company or start-up that wouldn't hire him. You're talking about a guy who talks at numerous conferences every year (or at least did), who designed Blogger templates before being employed by Google, who designed Webmonkey, Wired, etc. (http://stopdesign.com/about http://stopdesign.com/about) Besides, he was simply pointing out that this was a complete mismatch for him and I can understand his "frustration", given the fact that he was supposed to be a UI Lead at Google. He wasn't hired to be some low-level pixel pusher.