Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!
Question of the week:
What’s a kitchen tool or appliance you can’t live without as a vegan cook?
Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!
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Tool: pressure cooker, electric, plus slowcook and rice functions.
It means even in the worst depressions a bowl of rice and lentils is only 20 minutes away with one pot to clean. Sure it’s mush, but it’s better than not having it. Outside of depressions then it’s just a handy tool for cooking in a hurry, or simmering away a sauce with no supervision etc.
In life:
Please somebody end my suffering, I got roped into building a website and it’s supposed to go live on the 21st. In user testing it turned out that every single one of the board members of this club had a different version of the rules for the booking system to both each other and what was written down. They just had an emergency meeting to clarify last night and I have had to send back nine (9) points to clarify further. With stimulants and anger many things are possible but 4 days to build and test a mostly entirely rebuilt booking engine sure fucking approaches the limit.
EDIT: I am a god :p
The reminds me the other month i volunteered for a group that wanted a custom app built. We went through the requirements, i build it, i demo it, and they ask why it’s doing XYZ. I tell them the was what they wanted. Turns out they actually wanted some completely different logic that was a near total re-write. If i had just been contracting i would’ve had this kind of stuff built into the pricing/ conditions but for volunteer work it kind of sucked to waste hours on functionality i had to competely redo. And looking back it wasn’t like i didn’t ask the right questions.
Just can’t solve orgs having poor communication
The thing is in November I had a meeting, went over the spec again and demoed everything. Explained what was to implement still and showed a mock up.
Then they changed rules and never told me!
I’m getting paid a nominal amount (15 k aud) but with these last changes I literally just got off the phone from my god I’m earning it.
I quit programming because it makes me a nasty and stressed out person. This just reaffirms why.
Thoughts and prayers D: