TheRealPezDog

Account Manager

Notable Contributor

Fuck you, Salesforce.

Yeah , I said it. Fuck Salesforce. (Just need to vent a bit here, feel free to make fun of me, agree with me, vent YOUR frustrations, etc. all are welcome)

I'm sick of fucking updating salesforce, it's literally all I fucking do.

Management team: "Of course we're not gonna micromanage you but your inhales were down on Wednesday from 2-3, were you golfing?

Salesforce has turned the selling profession into a dashboard pleasing role versus actually TAKING CARE OF THE FUCKING CLIENT.

Here are some things I do that my NEGLECTFUL LEADERSHIP TEAM does not know about me for no other reason than they only judge me as a fucking stat on their stupid dashboards everyday:

-Time spent listening to podcast interviews of my target prospects

-Reading my target accounts’ 10’k reports

-Researching top prospects not just through LI, but Facebook, X, etc.

-Recording video messages and making pitch decks in Canva

-Coordinating necessary internal meetings to support deals.

-Collaborating internally across divisions to better serve current customers and expand accounts.

Seriously, FUCK SALESFORCE.

Regards,

TRPD

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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It’s not salesforce, it’s your leadership team.

Don’t blame the tool, blame the operator.

Gasty

Notable Contributor

5

War Room Community Manager

Agreed, I think more than the tool, the leadership seems at fault.
We all know, we need to update something to record our activities and efforts, can’t just see all this hard work, if they have to present something to their higher ups, how will they. ?

Then again, I get it, it can get frustrating. Anything operational basically becomes a challenge sooner or later.

RandyLahey

Politicker

5

Account Executive

This. Salesforce is an inanimate platform, only as good as those who upkeep it.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

2

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Heard!

alCan

Contributor

2

Account Executive

Who do you think sold the leadership on the dream?

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

3

☕️

Once more: your leadership team is the problem.

Vendors don’t sell process. They sell software that may or may not match your process.

SFDC doesn’t give two poos about whether or not their shitty lump of parts makes your life easy or hard. They just want that quota retirement.

jefe

Arsonist

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Phillip_J_Fry

Opinionated

8

Director of Revenue

AMEN!
I worked at a place that wanted to you to updated 25 opportunities everyday in SF. I quite literally got the 'minimum pieces of flair' talk from Office Space:

It seems like the number of opps you touched this week is low. You have an average of 26 per day.

Ok...? Isn't 25 the standard?

Well, yes, but Timmy over there updates 40 each day. You should try to be more like Timmy.

Timmy's at 14% of quota for the year. I'm at 108%. Have you actually looked at WHAT he's updating in the opportunity? He's just changing the dollar value by $1. Is that what you want me to do so I can hit 40 opps per day?

TheRealPezDog

Notable Contributor

5

Account Manager

EXACTLY. It forces you to actually find creative ways to fake the activity in salesforce enough to allow you some breathing room to ACTUALLY do your job. It's ridiculous that more than half of my efforts are spent worrying about "logging" shit, it's just absurd.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

8

🦊

Sorry friend but it's your lEaDeRsHiP tEaM.

jefe

Arsonist

12

🍁

**mIcRoMaNaGeMeNt TeAm

Fixed that for you, Foxy

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

8

ERP Sales

a VP of Sales and a refresh button in a CRM Dashboard
a sales reps worst nightmare

Justatitle

Big Shot

6

Account Executive

Accurate. Vent away comrade.

Pachacuti

Politicker

6

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

SF is a double edge sword. It can be a great tool to answer important business questions but it’s also the crutch of a poor manager who can only manage by numbers.

medhardwaredr

Politicker

3

Director of Sales NA

We have kpis and metrics I do not agree with however with a private equity above you leadership has zero choice but to enforce it. Pushing too hard to minimize or eliminate said metrics will result in termination so understand leadership has no option either

Ryscott0317

Politicker

3

Cloud Specialist

Oof that’s a tough one. Must respect to you for focusing on all the activities you should be though. I liked the listening to the podcast one, might have to do that

TheRealPezDog

Notable Contributor

0

Account Manager

It's amazing how many meetings you can get by referencing a podcast they did

TennisandSales

Politicker

2

Head Of Sales

dang bro dont get at SFDC like that! this is not a CRM problem its a shitty management problem haha

Joel23

Good Citizen

1

Community Manager

lol

ChumpChange

Politicker

1

Channel Manager

That sounds more like process and culture rather than the application. Don't hate the hand, hate the command.

Chep

WR Officer

0

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome. - Charlie munger. I think your management team is incentivizing the wrong things if all they care about is salesforce numbers

0

Major Account Executive

Burn it to the ground! Haha

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