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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.




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