Total Quality Maintenance

I just want to commend Rafaela of Total Quality Maintence, for doing such a great job. I was recently working for a VC in Menlo Park and got to speaking with Rafaela, who did the evening maintenance for the building.
I was so impressed by her. Sometimes when you use or set up recycling systems in kitchens, you find out that the person taking it out, just threw it in the trash (not usually, but it happens). I have literally walked out to the dumpsters to see if stuff actually got recycled and see if people were just throwing stuff into the trash. Well Rafaela not only puts all the recycling in it’s proper bins, but she actually has been taking it upon herself to sort and separate some of the kitchen trash (like cardboard, cartons) that the people at the VC would throw into the garbage (UGH! That just drives me nuts to think she would even have to do this… come on, Venture Capitalists… really? Are you THAT lazy so you can’t put stuff in their proper bins or set up a good system?).
Anyway, Rafaela said that this makes her job easier, because the trash bin gets so full, she can’t put anything else into it.
Total Quality Maintenance is very lucky to have Rafaela on their staff — I was so impressed when I talked to her. Thank you Rafaela for taking the time to do MORE than your part to take care of our environment. I know that you work quietly, seemingly unnoticed by most, at night… you work hard to serve rich venture capitalists who drink lattes out of $ 6,000 machines (and then the coffee grounds are tossed into the «recycling bins» — causing you a ton more work to try to separate all their trash) but you are really to be commended for keeping things running smoothly, behind the scenes, without complaint.
I wish every one of those venture capitalists could meet you and shake your hand and give you a big THANK YOU (and a gift certificate for a spa, for all you do for them). I am sure if they could see what you do, they would be very impressed. Thank you for caring enough to take the time — you are a rare find.