Sorry for these poor narrow minded answers....
Actually, EY is getting worse and worse if you're a DEC or still average as a F/O.
As a captain, your pay has been cut last salary revision.
For all fellow cockpit crews LHS and RHS, hardly any leave in summer, flying between 90 to 110 hours july and august. 7 days on ( back in the morning leaving same night ) 2 OFF days then the same. Of course to lovely destinations such as KRT, LHE, COK , TRV , DEL, ISB, KHI , PEW , etc....
Whatever your nationality can be , it's hard... hard... hard.....
You can hardly have 4 off days in a row to go back and SYD are always full with no crew seat available.....
Starting BNE in september 4 times a week via SIN, so that would be a nice commuting flight for douwnunder guys, but still, all crew will request these flights as they are the only rewarding ones moneywise and sleepwise....
Don't expect any help from crewing, they go first in their minds, neither from your management, european or Oz.
Ey is managed my a huge mid-class subcontinent bunch of incompetent accountants, HR, white collars with brand new tie and new shiny case , whom lifeaim is to make your life more and more difficult.
Money is even not anymore an issue. Salary has always been 25% less than aviation standards, but at least life was quite easy and time to command quite low. Now, salary is even worse, and living conditions have fallen into the deepest s++thole ever.
No more freetime, crewcontrol taking your phoneline as a jukebox , useless management busy with our airport carpark free cards or with the new Audi roadshow...... as we stall engines or loose hydraulic systems on a regular basis, safety aboard is totally inconsistant, training is postponned UFN, low experienced F/O are brought in as nobody with a decent widebody experience from a civilized country wants to join anymore.
You have to be on a constant watch, but with no sleep in your bags for the last 6 days.
Something will happen soon, better not to be on board.
Talking about Roadshow, your OZmate JH did 2 roadshows for the pilots, and only 7 of them showed up, and even these guys had their tiny questions unanswered. Nobody cares anymore of what B+++++++t can be said . We all know that it's a lie only to keep any pilot where he is.
Crew controllers have to crew 7/8 flights a day, that couldn't be crewed before by accepting dirty deals, leaving more flights open later in the month, cancelling simulators, ground courses etc.....
Crew planing is a joke, not only due to the people up there, but to the shortage and the poor financial interest of coming in the sand pit.
No right except the one of keeping your mouth shut as injustice is obvious, safety is involved every day and the local "authorities" managed by our employers......
Good recipe for murder isn't it... Patience, it's coming
Hope it gave a good insight, but of course it's a partial one, you will find happy people around here. The guys coming from third world countries national airlines , paid peanuts before, and now upgraded to roasted nuts salary.... Most of them will be happy. They save in their donkey currency , don't live, and will tell you EY is heaven.
No racism, no offense, just a cruel fact.
Maybe they are right, but most of the european, northamericans, and guys from downunder won't agree on this one.
Take care and fly safe