They inevitably are, because anyone who has a service subscription is doing this.

Because doing every single thing in-house is a different, more extreme value.

I'd love to be a $207k/mo. lunch lady.

We all do our part, but our CEO is ultimately responsible for dish duty at the office.

We do not currently have any lunch ladies, outsourced or in-house.

I want to experience a lunch made by a “lunch lady” that makes 200k a year. That sounds amazing.

I can count on both hands the number of meals I’ve had that would be made by such a person.

But what I wouldn’t want to experience is the amount of additional exercise I would require for my clothes to still fit.

That's a hedge fund thing but it does exist.

I knew a guy whose tech company managed to keep a chef through the 2008 crash but lost her a few years later when Apple made it harder to sell apps. I saw some pretty impressive leftovers.

>I'd love to be a $207k/mo. lunch lady.

I mean, I'd settle for being a $207k/yr lunch lady. Perhaps I'm unduly devaluing myself..

No, I have no first-hand evidence that they are.

It's possible they're 100% remote with no receptionists or cleaners. Even if they have offices, a surprising number of highly remunerated jobs involve pushing a mop from time to time.

Almost certainly. You really think they are paying their cleaners and receptionist $200k?

What receptionist?

(I'm actually not sure if we hire a cleaning service for the office, actually...)

We don't. When I'm there, I see it addressed as a communal responsibility. Not to be facetious, but the way it's done is a bit of a microcosm of Oxide itself: everyone just chips in and does parts of it as needed. I even filed a ticket to get a push-broom last time to make sweeping the floor easier.

Y'all are really scrubbing toilets?

But the real hero was the person who walked 100 yards to home depot and back with the push broom!

At 75 headcount I very much doubt you need either of those on staff full-time?

You can certainly make do without if your goal is to keep paying everyone the same.

I think in a smaller company I was part of all support tasks were rolled into a single ‘office manager’ role. When it’s all combined like that 200k becomes easier to justify.

That's not an efficient way to spend money. Fine if that is not your goal I guess, but there's no way this lasts if/when they have 500 employees and go public.