Standard Noise.
Please wind your neck in before it disappears up your attitude.
You whinge like hell because pilots won't come and see you in your ivory tower but you admit you won't bother to get off your arse to go visit some of the ops rooms. HYPOCRITE.
So you go off whatever slot your wonderful AFTN machine gives you. Well guess what. The ops guys go off the slot that their SITA machine tells them. So what happens when the 2 differ because AFTN hasn't got enough head of steam to push the messages through to you? You sit there fat dumb and happy with your slot and don't give a rats' arse about anybody else.
You say that ops guys don't recognise an airbus from a 31 bus. Well I suggest that you don't know your arse from your elbow!!
And before you launch into another vitriolic outburst, I have worked both in ops room and ATC. And guess what, there are ******s in both.