+ve rate:
Assuming you work for EK and have been here what, 15 months? then you are just about to find out exactly how much time this can take out of your FREE time. Add to that online training, on your DAYS OFF, and any further training details for the company they ask you to do excluding any block pay when you could just fly and get it anyway, then NO I am not joking... it simply takes the pi**.
As has been previously mentioned, if you come from a crap airline where they took liberties and abused your rights then EK must seem like heaven. BUT if you set your previous companies standard as your datum before long EK will decend to it and it is on its way down.