The problem is even easier sorted than that. Many times we approach the stand and have many staff hanging around who could check the ramp and turn on the guidence, but the turn 'round coordinaters won't let anybody else do 'their' job so we get stuck, and with the restrictions on idle power only going onto stand we get stuck out on the taxi ways. I too hear the resignation in the voices of the ATC'ers and feel humiliated to work for such a band of incompetent tossers. But what can you do?