Varmint,
I am sorry to hear that you have had a hard time with the EK training department. But you see the TRE that is conducting your check gets to see the other few thousand of your colleagues as well, and he will be looking at your performance vs theirs. If your colleagues have taken the time to learn the EK SOP, and the correct way to talk on the radio, they will be marked higher than you. Its that simple really. Unfortunately it EKs train set and if you want to work here you have to play with it using their rules. If you think things should be changed, write in and make suggestions.
I am sure you spent many minutes learning the answers to your ATP exam, and were highly regarded when flying regional, however you decided to leave that. You decided that EK was a better airline for you than where you were before. But now you want EK to drop its training standards to your level. The vast majority of our pilots are to an incredibly high standard. They get off their @rses and study and prepare before going to a training or checking session. There are a few who turn up and expect to be spoon fed, and will whinge and make up excuse after excuse about why they can't perform as well as their peers. These are the guys that make the trainer want to, as you suggested, "puke".
Good on you for being able to fly the EK network. This would also be the same network that the trainers would fly wouldn't it? Or does it all become less complicated and easier when they fly it?
The Don