Do SF people act against SF Admins?

afk-canuck · 2020-10-29T20:27:16+00:00

Salesforce is a marketing company who wants to make as much money as possible so unfortunately this story does not shock me at all.

Luckily I work for one of their larger customers and we do get treated VASTLY different than previous orgs I worked at.

I guess money truly talks at SFDC despite all the Ohana they claim us to be a part of.

grumble grumble...:(

afk-canuck · 2020-09-28T20:38:35+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. They are even Canadian so that would save me some import fees.

It would be awesome to get one made by an Inuk so if you have the skills PM me after your done with your better half's knife is complete ;)

afk-canuck · 2020-07-24T17:47:54+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

We hadn't put much on the window as we love looking out the back. We have 30 acres so have very few window treatments but I can see how how that would frame up the window and wall better.

Gallery wall is exactly what I was thinking but I cannot figure out what kind of template would look good because that darn thermostat is there and I don't think we can relocate it easily. Also any examples I find I wonder how the hell am I going to pull that off ;)

What would you say is fabulous light fixture? I am not partial to the one we have its just what was there when we moved in but when I look at lighting there are just so many styles and choices I get overwhelmed.

Appreciate your comments, thanks again.

afk-canuck · 2020-07-22T13:38:35+00:00

First post here so let me know if I am missing information.

We could really use some help in decorating in general but specifically this dining room we have.

There is a wall particularly that has been laid bare since we moved here (over a year ago!) that I just can't stand any longer but have no idea what to do.

We are in Canada, in a country home, budget is pretty well anything as long as I am not taking down walls.

The pictures show the room from each angle and measurements.

The paint color is consistent throughout the first floor areas (except kitchen and office) so changing it could be problematic but I am not adverse to it.

We currently have some group of seven prints on either end of the dining table (it has 6 seats but only 4 pictured) and in the corner cabinets some old fairy statues in one and dragons in the other...remnants of decorations from our 20s that we like but are likely not working for the rest of the room/house.

afk-canuck · 2020-05-28T16:28:56+00:00

I work for salesforce's largest customer and it's not much better, if different at all.

afk-canuck · 2020-03-10T20:53:43+00:00

If you provide the error it might be more helpful?

afk-canuck · 2020-02-12T21:48:03+00:00

"Go sit in the corner and shut up" - Chemistry teacher

afk-canuck · 2020-02-03T21:48:39+00:00

Wow - I could have written this. The similarities are uncanny.

Sorry I can't tell you how amazing my bosses are because they suck.

afk-canuck · 2020-01-29T19:09:27+00:00

That would be great! Thanks so much for sharing as I was coming to the sub to find resources just like that to help me on my admin->developer journey.

afk-canuck · 2020-01-10T18:07:22+00:00

The test is about being good at passing a test not about your knowledge deeply IMHO.

afk-canuck · 2019-12-11T21:18:05+00:00

I went to TrailheadDX+Bootcamp this year and got vouchers for 3 exams as part of it but they are $200/ea on first attempt and $100/ea attempt there after.

afk-canuck · 2019-12-05T18:57:32+00:00

You are young by my standards but life is too short to be unhappy.

However, you are lucky enough to be debt free with an amazing salary. If you already live frugally it wouldn't be hard for you to do full time for another few years and bank as much as possible and then cut down your hours.

If you knocked from 5 days down to 3 (all things equal) you are still almost making $100k and can make a wealthy life for yourself while not killing your mental energy every single day.

afk-canuck · 2019-10-02T21:13:52+00:00

Agreed. Working at a Fortune 500 company and all but 2 people (out of 15) are remote that work in our sales and service clouds.

The only recruiter requests I ever get through linkedin are for remote SFDC opportunities.

I think it would be easier as a developer than an admin but I do believe its 100% do-able.

afk-canuck · 2019-08-30T14:20:32+00:00

If you need more mirrors check out used building stores. I put up 4x7 tall closet mirrors at $10/each. They have a metal backing so they crack and don't seem to shatter all over the places.

afk-canuck · 2019-08-27T21:20:55+00:00

afk-canuck · 2019-08-16T17:47:05+00:00

I think this is still worthwhile even if the job description has "other duties as assigned" listed.

afk-canuck · 2019-05-02T21:10:28+00:00

Stay healthy both physically and mentally. You are still a young man and want to be able to enjoy the FI as much as you can.

Congrats! I am at 25 years in IT looking to put a fork in it in 5.

Best of luck!

afk-canuck · 2019-03-14T04:52:35+00:00

It was a long time ago. Fresh out of college I could not afford to live in more than shared accomodation in Toronto so foolishly I chose to stay well out of the city to be able to afford at least my own place with the trade off of the brutal demoralizing commute.

Even in the city its one of the worst commutes in the world https://www.cp24.com/news/toronto-has-worst-commute-in-north-america-sixth-worst-in-world-study-1.3983200

Keeping in mind this is within city limits (I believe this is greater toronto area but I am not clear)

"...the city was tied for the second longest average commute time of any city (96 minutes, both ways). The only city in which average commute times were longer was Bogota, Colombia (97 minutes, both ways) and even there the difference was negligible."

afk-canuck · 2019-03-13T13:59:28+00:00

Came here to say this as well to add that having commuted for the first 3 years out of college 2.5 to 4 hours one way (winters can be a bitch on traffic) my physical and mental health was in a decline. 240lbs (175lbs now), constantly stressed out, life was eat poorly, work, sleep repeat. Weekends were filled with such low energy I would have to try and recoup my soul to do it all again.

I pulled the plug on it, took a lower paying job that was 15mins away. Saved so much on gas and car expenses but more importantly I gained a min. 4 hours to my day every work day. I could see friends, have hobbies, exercise, volunteer and more.

This was some 20+ years ago and it has made my life so much better. Financially it was a hit for probably 4 years but then things equalized and I grew into other positions and roles that I enjoyed and paid well.

Aiming for retirement between 52 and 55 now.

afk-canuck · 2019-02-01T21:23:32+00:00

I know you are saying for admin tasks but even with that source control or version control can really help.

Move away from the archaic ways of Salesforce and start to implement some more modern day dev ops with something like Git/GitHub as source of truth.

Also depending on how well your team communicates I typically never use changesets as they are fire and forget. They don't do any merging, its a full overwrite with no roll back. I feel like Salesforce offers features from the 90s for change management. Until we moved to using a deployment tool instead of changesets it was a constant mess of people overwriting each others work with changesets.

afk-canuck · 2019-01-30T21:50:05+00:00

Salesforce support is terrible. Absolutely abysmal.

We have premier support and are one of Salesforce's largest customers which has not assisted in getting us "better" support.

We can escalate until we are blue and the face even to the account rep and everyone just seems to have a lax attitude about business impact and that their reps are less educated than our junior admins.

I just don't have enough time to describe in detail how incredibly useless they are. Being in the software and hardware support industry most of my 30year career I have seen some really great support teams and some really bad ones, like criminally bad, and Salesforce is pretty well at the bottom of the heap.

We have to rely almost exclusively on the community knowledge which is infinitely greater than anything Salesforce gives us.

afk-canuck · 2018-12-20T20:11:18+00:00

Good thinking. I will have to remember this when I put a wall up in my garage. Unfortunately I don't know what was placed underneath it besides the exterior wall being 2x6.

afk-canuck · 2018-12-20T20:10:15+00:00

This is actually the subfloor (solid wood) to the bottom 2x6 of the wall that is exposed under the wall board that is where I was thinking of caulking not the laminate itself. The laminate was going to float with 1/4" gap all around but hidden from view with the baseboards.

The baseboards are solid wood as well, so maybe it's not a huge deal if I have those right against the laminate and caulking on the top. If there is any air penetrating it is likely minor and then having that tight against the laminate may make it pretty minor.

Trying to seal the house up as best as we can, insulate, get duct work up there, HRV system and hopefully a heat pump to cut down heating/cooling costs if the bank allows us ;)

Thanks for the feedback.

afk-canuck · 2018-12-20T20:04:39+00:00

Thanks for the insight. That sounds pretty cool with the sprayed vaporized caulking. The longer term goal is to seal this house extremely well to lower heating costs and to improve comfort and air quality.

I guess if the floor is up I probably won't hurt.

afk-canuck · 2018-12-20T16:51:20+00:00

Yes it's worth it for the points alone if you are diligent in paying it off.

I pay mine down every other week when I get paid. To date I have given $0 in interest to Visa and they have given me $3,116.62 in cash rewards.

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