You don't go buy a mop when you have a flood you keep one standing by. Maintenance is like keeping a rental mop on hand, sure you can use it for the little things while you wait for the big one and that's when they shine.
Some cleaning, but mostly making sure the monkeys moved and the latex elephant went off on schedule, also the kitchen items like the fryers, pizza conveyor, and dishwasher were ready to go at all times.
Where my wife works they don't fund the maintenance department, instead they put a maintenance expense in everyone else's budget and make facilities bill them like they are an outside contractor. Stupidest business model.
My job for years was building maintenance. From doing it on my own at small places to leading teams. One of the last places I worked at was a theme restaurant that had me and a part time person. The job started at 4am so I would be out of the way before they started serving guests. I had a great boss that was moved to another location, after 3 years, the new boss hated me he constantly asked me to prove my work, told me straight out that he couldn't quantify my labor cost. The first meeting we had he told me straight out that he didn't understand the position and didn't know why I was there. Needless to say I was fired after 4 months with him.
My mother used to make a similar dish, we simply called it rice and gravy. Though using it to feed five kids it was a lot more of the rice and gravy part less of the beef.
This was a native American trick, picked up by the boy scouts, on trail marking this tree doesn't seem old enough to be a native trail marker. Odds are it was done by a scout for a merit badge in trail marking.
More room for loot