<human>: Obvious throwaway account.  I work in a fairly expensive service industry where most of our clients pay us anywhere from 2-20K a month.  We're pretty new to the scene but have been pretty successful.

Recently, my bosses (the 2 partners) have begun to accept some payments from clients in "barter" form.  Service for service.  Sounds ok to me as long as the service they're providing us is helping our company out as a whole. You scratch our back, we'll scratch yours kinda thing.

But, the services they are taking instead of payment are for their own personal use.  Trying to avoid detail, but we just brought on a client that should owe us 1.5K a month.  They offer a service that involves maintenance and upkeep for a home-related thing that basically, only upper-middle class or just upper-class citizens would even have.  The partners are accepting their services for their personal homes as a form of payment.

All of us, the employees of the company that do the work, are not even paid enough to afford the "home-related" luxury-esque thing that they are having serviced for free thanks to our work.

We're a private company, so I doubt it's illegal.  As far as I know, they can do whatever they want.  Is this the kind of shady shit that should make me start looking for other jobs though?  Or is this kind of thing actually fairly common in the private sector?

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: My bosses may be doing some shady shit by accepting services for their personal gain over actual payment from our clients.  Should I start looking for another job or is this common?