Not wanting to get into a petty argument over who is doing more work than who. But just for info, I regularly work a mixture of FIS,RIS and RAS traffic with up to 15 speaking units all doing pretty much whatever they want, so your statement is fankly wrong.
Now all I expect is a slightly more professional approach from our neighboring civ units. I am not branding all civ controllers as slack but the some of the responses me and my colleagues have recieved in the past have been frankly 'slack', if we were pilots it would be called poor airmanship.
The whole reason I have posted here is to see if there is a way in which I can phrase my handover such that the civ controller is going to take it with the least amount of hassle, or is it that a termination of service and a free call is really the best solution? After all if you are really busy you don't want Farmer giles blathering on for 3 minutes with his opening gambit inluding his wifes name and what he had for dinner last night.