Staff at outports generally very co-operative and helpful (there are exceptions). However, as a rule, in Dubai, the staff handling staff travel seem to take it upon themselves to pay you back personally for 200 years of British colonial rule over India.
Again, some individuals do go out of their way to be helpful, but you could be forgiven for thinking that the vast majority of EK/DNATA staff you will encounter when attempting to fly sub-load out of Dubai have been allocated staff travel either as a punishment or because the company considers them too incompetent to be let loose on paying customers.
If they can screw you around, eg, by delaying the issue of your ticket so that you have to run to make the flight, (it's a very long way from the standby desk to the gates), or by allocating you a seat in Economy when there are seats available in Business or First, they will do so.