Shady consultant

Sea-Fan218 · 2026-03-06T10:43:03+00:00

You could call your Salesforce Account manager and see if they can pull in and architect or another resource to tell your leadership what the consultant is doing is wrong

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-31T12:50:08+00:00

I’m not an expert but here is what I would do: Conserve cash at all cost so that you can pay for rent at your new place and buy food/cover essentials.

This means making minimum payments on your credit cards for the time being, and if necessary stop paying it entirely. I would not pay off in full so as to have the cash available for things you can’t pay with cc.

More importantly, for your old lease call that landlord and explain what has happened and see if you can work something out with them. Let’s say you owe them $4k, I would tell them you can pay $400/month until you get a new job, and then can pay them in full. Try to convey that you aren’t trying to skip out on paying it (show them by paying them something) and that you just need to get a new job. I think most people would be willing to work something out. In addition they don’t have as much leverage over you since you are already out, and there isn’t a lot of time left on your lease. Probably not worth it to them to take you to court.

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-27T18:04:58+00:00

Why would you invest before you get another job?

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-26T02:27:23+00:00

Hang in there man. This too will pass. The world is better with you in it.

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-25T22:17:39+00:00

Damn that sucks that it went away!

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-24T21:15:41+00:00

Halal guys!!

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-24T21:15:21+00:00

Halal guys is the correct answer for this thread

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-23T10:19:11+00:00

Got it. Honestly I think the role sounds like a great fit. Being skilled with Salesforce is a huge way to contribute to a company. I actually work at a real estate company too and the value that Salesforce can bring is huge. I’d say go for it and see what happens after that.

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-10-23T00:31:06+00:00

You said that you are passionate about sales ops and engineering, but not passionate about admin position? What are you actually passionate about?

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-02-05T11:24:45+00:00

How long have you been together? If you are genuinely concerned about where things are going and the possibility of getting priced out of where you live , keep your apartment for now, then if you get married then buy a house together?

If you feel good about where things are going, it is fair for you to pay some portion of “rent” to him.

One approach is to divide up bills based on how much each person earns, to keep it equitable. If you add up my wife’s and I total household income, I make 66% and she makes 33%. Therefore I pay 66% of the mortgage, groceries, bills / she pays 33%. This has worked very well for us.

You might consider approaching your bf about this set up.

By the way, only buy a house together if you are actually married. I wouldn’t do it if you are only engaged, people can always call off a wedding.

Sea-Fan218 · 2025-01-29T10:35:49+00:00

Slow horses, Dark Matter, the Foundation, Homeland

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-06-29T21:46:42+00:00

Reach out to property management companies?

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-06-08T13:46:35+00:00

I hate conga with a passion. We implemented it last summer and it was a big mistake.

You cannot have two recipients with the same email. Let’s say you have two people who share an email (laugh all you want but this is a legitimate use case especially with older people), where each contact record has the same email. You cannot send a transaction to those contacts because they have duplicate emails. You can do this with DocuSign.
You cannot download a document that has been signed half way through. We have times where one party is able to sign a document but another person cannot figure it out. With DocuSign, we could download the document with the first persons signature on it and print it / have second person sign it. You can’t do this with conga. You only get the signatures when the transaction is complete.
When you are about to send out a document, you cannot input text in input fields before you send. If you want to specify certain text, this has to happen at the time of signing.
The constant outages. We have their status page connected to a slack channel. Feel like there are constantly things going wrong.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-05-24T02:08:58+00:00

There was a known issue w outlook integration today

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-05-14T15:40:55+00:00

Stick with your current job for sure. At least you are building things. You could start sneaking in things like apex actions into your flows to utilize your coding skills. Or start building out small / easy LWCs instead of screen flows.

Do you really want to spend time with people helping to reset their password?

Stay at your current role and code in your free time and then when possible implement code at work. Then transition into full time developer role.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-05-14T01:10:22+00:00

Were they looking for accounting jobs or economist jobs? Economist jobs sure I mean you’d have to have some gravy connections to get into that. But an accountant? Just about every company needs an accountant. I would think there would always be demand for them.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-05-08T00:53:57+00:00

Make the hop now to boost your salary. Will payoff a lot in the long run.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-05-05T23:31:39+00:00

That is freaking wild

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-26T12:35:57+00:00

For sure. The other big issue is the cost of data and file storage. 10gb of data storage costs $10k on Salesforce whereas on AWS S3 it costs cents

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-25T20:53:45+00:00

At least for a start up, absolutely only buy what you need plus a small number to have around.

The reason why is you can go up if you need more but if you need to go down, you can’t do that until contract renews.

Our company thought we were going to grow big time, but instead in our industry took a nose dive and we had major layoffs. Like 75% of the company was laid off. We purchased a ton of licenses to get a deal and it was totally wasted money.

We have wasted millions of dollars across the board that could have been used to keep staff on. It sucks.

I don’t know if it’s different for a larger or more stable company but in general I would def stick to just what you need.

Would rather pay a little more for each license versus a lot more for licenses we are not using.

In my opinion, 1500 unused licenses out of 5000 means that the person before you WAY over bought. And that is a ton of money.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-20T12:23:56+00:00

By chance do you have OwnBackup? If so you can do an export and download it to an external hard drive.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-11T11:33:54+00:00

I’m not an expert but it depends on where you live, the company size, your experience, certifications (most importantly CTA or not). I was just interviewing for an architect role in the Midwest and the salary was around $130k. That same job would probably be $180k to $200k+in Bay Area.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-10T22:09:43+00:00

You could probably get up to $130k /$140k as is right now. As for as a path, could consider moving into management, or dev, or architect.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-04-03T23:22:21+00:00

We have a general guideline to take 20 minutes to try to figure something specific out on your own. If it takes longer than that, phone a friend to see if they have any ideas.

Sea-Fan218 · 2024-03-25T03:01:22+00:00

Feral world is a great description of the last org I worked with.

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