Ops Clerks
I will step gently in to the puddle.
Back in the mists of time it was Ops Clerks and no complaints. We had lots of clerks. Ops Clerks sat in Ops, Admin Clerks sat in the registry etc. Names change but many hang on to the old terms even when they never served at that time.
How to p*ss off the civilian admin is to call them Civil Admin. They have been Civilian Personnel for years but they are still admin wallahs.
The people that do the camp maintenance - some still call them PSA, others learn the name of the first contractor to take over and use that name for ever more.
There is no disrespect intended calling an assistant a clerk.
As for flight planning clerks - where there is one SAC working alone in FP handling notams, new docs etc, they can be working totally unsupervised and are that one essential person in the pre-flight planning phase for ALL flights. If they don't get the notams out or forward the latest docs then they are the weakest link.
Don't knock flight planning; don't take them for granted.