Teresa
My recent experience is that the staff travel site does not reflect the reality.
Unless you have the real thing you are still behind the 8 ball.
On my recent trip, a nice young fellow at check in swung the screen around and showed me exactly where I was in relation to other staff.1st time ever.
There was a balls up with seat allocation but thats another story.Cant believe they make full payers queue up for half an hour just to drop their bags.Its constant crisis management with the soon to depart flts being called to the front of the queue.