This was my last job, anyone in this position for any longer than necessary should be looking for another role. You're on a path to burnout or apathy, either way.
I called it "Monster of the Week", as I was watching a lot of X-Files at the time. Still like that term for it.
This is the solution as I recall (stolen from reddit post cited at bottom):
Step 1: Right click an open Picture-in-Picture window. In the context menu, select "More Actions" -> "Configure Special Window Settings...". This will populate most of the window settings for you.
Step 2: Click "Add Property..." and select "Window title". The newly added row's text field should read "Picture-in-Picture". Change the dropdown option from "Unimportant" to "Exact Match". (All PiP windows in Firefox use this title and by making it Exact Match the rule shouldn't affect any other Firefox windows.)
Step 3: Click "Add Property..." again and this time select "Keep above other windows". The dropdown in the newly added row should be set to "Apply Initially". Select the "Yes" radio button if it isn't already. (As a note, I think that didn't work for me as I have it set to "Force" rather than "Apply Initially")
Step 4: Click "OK". That's it. No more manually setting Keep Above every time you open a PiP.
Since doing the above it's just worked without issue, though it was annoying that it was broken in the first place.
Maybe I'm missing something, but Picture-in-Picture has worked for years in Wayland Firefox for me. You do have to enable it in `about:preferences`, there's a toggle called: "Enable picture-in-picture video controls"
On which Desktop Environment/wayland compositor? I am pretty sure Firefox Picture in picture works as intented (tiny window, stays on top of things) on GNOME's wayland session, and on Plasma 5.27.x I was able to make it work with a few KWin rules set by GUI (I would love to share the details, but I don't have my Plasma machine with me currently).
What compositor? I use Hyprland and Firefox/Chromium Picture in Picture, and as far as I can tell, works as expected. I just hit the PiP button and it pops the video out into a new tiled window that I can toggle floating if I want. Just tried on a windows machine and, as far as I could tell, it was the same.
> Reality: It’s fine, I’ll finish the work on Saturday.
At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours, and at no point will I ever do so. Sorry, no, once I did and it lead to me leaving the job..!
And it's harmfully perpetuating the idea that you're expected to do so when you're not paid for the labour.
To each their own, but this is in fundamental disagreement with how career ladders work.
If you do the bare minimum to get by, you meet expectations. If you want to grow your career, by necessity and definition, you need to go above and beyond in order to exceed expectations, and this requires hard work.
Companies like Google, Facebook, et al. have defined dexpectations in place that juniors must grow into a senior role in N years. If you don't, you'll be fired for underperformance.
So yes, if you're a junior, "just doing the job" is coasting.
> At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours, and at no point will I ever do so. Sorry, no, once I did and it lead to me leaving the job..!
"At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours" but "once I did"? Anyway, you probably worked at large companies only; I work in a startup and if the other ops guy is offline I do work off-hours because, well, the website won’t go back up by itself.
There are 2 cases you should be working on weekends:
1) First 2-3 years of career - In these times you learn by simply doing, so if you work on weekends you speed up your learning curve. Past 2-3 years you don't learn anything by doing normal work, so you need your weekends to do actual "levelling up".
2) You have equity in the business or you have a bonus structure that compensates weekend work.
If you are outside those 2 cases, and you are working more than 5 weekends a year (say 2-3 weekends per 6 months for true random business emergencies that almost everyone in the org has to do), you need to leave.
The GP is saying that his website fails outside of the contracted hours as well as inside of them.
And yes, an emergency here or there is normal in smaller companies. If they start happening several times in a single year, it's a sign that something is very wrong, but it's not reasonable to expect them never to happen.
Also, a small place will have scheduled out-of-hours work. Those can be well planed or not, and people can be well compensated or not, but they'll always exist.
While I was never eligible to serve in the military due to a health condition, I can also say that violent video games had the opposite effect on me that many adults feared they might - I learned via first person shooters that other humans were quite skilled at killing me and was smart enough to know that there aren't any re-spawns in real life. As a result, I never wanted to get in a gunfight with anyone.
Also, while I was quite naive to the realities of the geopolitical order as a kid (and probably am now too as an adult), the clear hard sell pitch that George Bush gave the country about how we needed to invade Iraq made me instantly suspicious of his motivations. I think that instinct has proven quite correct in retrospect and is probably one of the happenings you're alluding to over the last few decades.
That's just me as an American Millennial, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhat of a general view.
Even your "cynical" view is a bit rosy. Indirect fire is the main killer. Most soldiers won't even see an enemy soldier before they are dead or wounded.
A whole lot of (mostly-)little things, over the past half-ish century, have lead them to seriously doubt the existing social order. Volunteering for military service is something of an all-in endorsement of that order.
Though it doesn't help that British kids have felt no visceral "we're at risk from $Powerful_Enemy!" fears since ~1990.
One only needs to look at the Glorious Revolution to see what a hostile takeover of Britain by a foreign power which pays lip service to Britishness would look like.
Also one rather needs ones army to be xenophobic, a xenophilic army would be somewhat poor at its job.
I've been musing that the majority of ~canon fodder~ lower class working men are so destructively disengaged from main stream western culture that a new branch of Islam with 19th century western sensibilities - nationalism, nativism, chauvinism, etc. - would have very little trouble in taking over.
In addition to all the comments, it’s way easier to see what “army life” looks like nowadays from videos. Sprinkle some real footage from recent wars, to see the worst case scenarios, I’m not sure how I can ever be convinced to be a part of it.
I'm guessing they're trying to say, because Gen Z isn't interested in the military, they didn't join early on and built enough experience and knowledge to now be eligible for the position.
> Why aren't the kids joining the military? Did something happen in the last few decades that made them rethink it as a career option, possibly?
Wouldn't the right question to answer be why anyone would want to join the military? At best you get an average/below-average salary, at worst you get sent to fight in wars. Seems like very little benefits for a lot of risks.
The other problem is it’s not just a job, you sign away your rights for life and can be recalled at any time. Also, if you really piss them off they can recall you then try you under the BS military judicial system instead.
If you’re particularly unlucky you get blown up in the sandbox 6,000 miles from home and die for nothing.
It’s the surest way to access European-like benefits for the lower class, in the US. Housing (for your family, too), healthcare (ditto), retirement, free education, paid vacation (if not much of it). Pretty good schools for your kids, mostly.
But in most of the rest of the OECD, like Britain? Yeah, not sure.
As someone with a high school diploma and nothing else, and zero cash in the bank? Those are the folks to whom enlisting is appealing (in the US, at least). Not college grads in hot, in-demand fields with at least five figures liquid and ready to spend on immigration expenses.
I'm in the same boat as you are more or less - just have cash in the bank - beyond that everything I do is based on North American standards - much of it does not directly translate to Europe - if I wanted to remain employable, Canada or Australia is where I would have to go, as in my industry they're closer to the US technically.
I called it "Monster of the Week", as I was watching a lot of X-Files at the time. Still like that term for it.
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