As a former EK pilot (left 5 years ago) can I please just suggest you all take a step back and read this thread as if it were a bunch of medical professionals talking rather than pilots? It's embarrassing. We're all supposed to be on the same side in this thing. The situation is slowly improving and there is cause for optimism, but the last thing that we need as a professional community is for the general public to see a bunch of immature comments from the guys and girls who they trust their lives with.
Seriously, just read through all the Emirates threads as if it were a brain surgeons message board, then think how you'd feel if you were about to go in for brain surgery. Scary. It's about time to move on from this destructive nonsense. Maybe it's the effect of living in a cut-throat society out in Dubai, it can really mess with your head. A lesson to others.
Apologies for the intervention. Hope things improve for us all soon.