When in EK as a 777 FO many years ago, an otherwise pleasant Captain told me once that "there is nothing written in the books calling for interpretation of what you see outside of the window when flying" (we had been discussing CB avoidance at night..) Waoww...
Another terrible sentence at EK, which has been creating a lot of evil was the infamous : "EK pilots should use the highest level of automation available" ....
I had been performing entire visual circuits at EBL notably, with Captains ex-RAF C130 (like me in another AF) and that was great.
Then other captains told me : " so you want to have fun ?" then "if you miss it, you will have big problems" (but why should I ?) so I decided to leave for more interesting pastures (yes, some colleagues were great, but so many others were of very low calibre)