We also get a lot of volunteers, some are invaluable and can’t be thanked enough, many take up so much staff time to train and supervise that I wonder why we bother. We have been getting a lot of volunteers lately - more than usual. Some are school kids who are trying to pad their qualifications for college applications (or else their school requires a certain number of community service), some are unemployed people who want to stay busy and keep their work ethic humming. Others baffle me as to what has motivated them to offer their “services” in the first place.
I hear you. In a previous life, I worked for a non-profit organization and worked with a variety of volunteers ranging from those worth their weight in gold to those not worth a warm bucket of spit. Some organizations actually have volunteers sign contracts so they can shed those in the later category. Most are left to assigning them jobs where they can do the least amount of damage.