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Military background and delight in the job help ‘star’ Muni driver keep things running smooth

March 20, 2024 All Posts 1 Comment

Jolt after jolt, from stop to stop, veteran San Francisco Municipal Railway driver Angel Carvajal has piloted trains, buses, and streetcars across the hills, streets, and tunnels of San Francisco. And over the years, among a mostly civil clientele, he’s dealt with knife-wielding and abusive passengers, a truck driver who plowed into his light rail ...

Nicaraguan refugee makes a life as bank teller, school aide and house cleaner – with some perks from customers who became friends

March 31, 2022 All Posts 1 Comment

Guess Elba Balderramos’s job, a gig where grateful clients paid for her to cruise to Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii and the Panama Canal, and one promised to leave her $50,000 in her will. Trusted family lawyer? Investment Advisor? Nope. Balderramos, now 79, is a bank teller at the Bank of America in San Francisco, where she’s ...

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