Or the "if I can't do radio, I am going home" group. Or the "ain't my job" group.
These are the folks that are a solution that's looking for a problem that no one has any more.
And ultimately the reason I have little use of what ARES has turned into for the most part.
We are hobbyists of technology. Sure it's sort of specifically radio, but there are things that can be done with 'radio' that don't involve talking on it.
I have spelled out a number of things that we could be doing and preparing for on here that NEVER get any feedback. Because they don't involve sitting on your butt rattling off your call sign into a radio, they aren't worth bothering with.
And the 'going home' part... why even bother to show up?
Here's the hard truth. If you show up to a shelter similar site and they have you pouring coffee YOUR RADIO operator abilities ARE NOT NEEDED. The part of this that blows my mind is that these folks will keep showing up and leave in a huff because they will be pouring coffee or some other mundane task that needs done that's not radio related.
And these are the same folks that will drop a Disney vacation's cost into some box of radios they refer to as a 'GO KIT'. That never gets used when it does GO anywhere other than maybe field day.
But I will go down the path of the 'It ain't my job' group and say this. They are exactly right.
Any time there is a mundane task to be performed, the people in the shelter that are getting free room and board could and should be doing that.
Setting up beds, cooking, making coffee. That is all stuff for people that are guests of someone else's hospitality should be taking care of.
Not the guy that showed up to provide communications. If no communications support is needed then the folks in charge need to send the ham operators on their way and NOT have them doing other things. And here's why. The folks that are in a shelter have no where else to go. That's why they are in the shelter. Any time you bring a bunch of people together you create a breeding ground for the transfer of any and all viruses and the like that come in the place. MINIMIZING the total number of people in a shelter is ALWAYS the best policy.
And I never seen an ARES member bring their own food and drink to ANY operations site, not a training, not a full on disaster, none of it. I am sure that some do, but I never seen it. Which means that you are another mouth to feed from a limited food supply.
So when you are ask to leave. Do so graciously. Inform them where you will be if they need assistance later and head out.