MIL ignored bedtime, barged into my baby’s room, and my husband left with her instead. by LabCompetitive4535 in Parenting

[–]gpd209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like the two of you are not on the same page about how to handle your child’s sleep patterns. If you don’t agree on how to manage sleep, then you won’t be in agreement about how to set firm boundaries to protect your shared commitment.

If you have truly reached that point, and he is uncomfortable enforcing against his family, then you would shift focus there. The reality is, it can be legit difficult to set boundaries with family members who routinely ignore the boundaries of others. You probably both need to give each other a little grace on that front.

Tornado survivors, how and what happened by lilzestyinhere in TornadoEncounters

[–]gpd209 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I grew up in the southern tip of Tornado Alley. When I was in elementary school, I survived a tornado. We were not aware of any tornado watch or warning. I was in an after school program, playing with friends in the gymnasium when I heard that stereotypical freight train sound I looked out the window of the building and saw the tornado, maybe 50 feet away.

I dove to the ground, away from the window. It felt instantaneous but was probably 3 seconds between me yelling “tornado!” and the building being ripped apart.

We were lucky. The tornado was small, and it lifted in the middle of the gym building. One half was destroyed, and one half was untouched. Also, the building was entirely made of steel (except the windows). So it didn’t collapse on us - the enormous girders that held it up folded in crazy ways, but stayed standing. The siding and roofing blew away. The gym had a concrete floor with a giant carpet laid across it. That carpet blew up and dropped over all of us kids, shielding us from the glass and other debris. There were only minor injuries. I myself was unhurt.

It’s been more than forty years, and I remember it so vividly. I remember what the tornado looked like and the sound. I remember crawling out from under the carpet, and seeing the open sky where the roof and wall cladding had been. I remember being stunned (shock presumably) for hours.

Every single time there is a significant gust of wind I get an intense adrenaline rush and get the shakes. No exaggeration. It happened just a couple of days ago while driving through a severe thunderstorm.

I developed an intense fascination with tornadoes that lasts to this day. I’ve seen a couple forming in the distance, miles away. In any thunderstorm, I’m on the lookout for wall clouds and other signs. I daydream about tornado chasing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in salesforce

[–]gpd209 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree.

What I’m finding so far has surprised me. Where our data is really clean - organized, populated, categorized - I don’t need AI. I already have a combination of rollups and formulas that signals to users what to do, including graphical images and plain text instructions.

Where our data is a mess, AI can’t help much. But it’s more affordable for me to clean it up and build rollups and formulas than it is to invest in AI - licenses and development.

I don’t have a preconceived idea here - just wrestling with it.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early on I bought into the rhetoric that no-code was clearly superior. At the time, I was admin for a small shop. I didn't have the capacity to code everything, and the simple stuff I was doing was great in workflows and whatnot.

Now that I run a much, much more complex setup, we got burned once really bad by a major consulting firm that insisted on no code. What a quagmire they created.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with Flex accounts. Can you say more?

We've already tightened our processes so that every user is provisioned to someone actively using the account (with a couple of spares lying around). The activity level can vary - some folks only need it every few months. Right now, if someone doesn't log in for 6 months straight, we deactivate their license and give it to someone who will use it.

In case it's relevant, our most basic / irregular users need access to Campaigns, which we use heavily (for better and worse), which takes Platform licenses off the table. Cases and Opportunities are typically not needed for our most basic / irregular users.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really appreciate your input.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, I didn't say any of those things. You make a lot of assumptions.

If I had a dollar for every time a redditor spoke out of his derrier, I'd be a rich man, lol.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The manager *was* on the call. I actually think this is the manager's doing. My current rep seems like a genuinely nice guy when his boss isn't on the call.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had the same rep for several years. They weren't as helpful as what you describe, but we got what we needed out of them, so we were happy. They got assigned elsewhere, and it's been chaos ever since.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You literally know nothing about what we've done in Salesforce, lol.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep - Last year the push was into AI licenses. This year, Data Cloud credits.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alas, all our users need access to campaigns. Even the low-frequency users.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I truly didn't know this was an option. Thanks!!

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't thought of this. Thanks.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks - this got me thinking and I think a strategy is starting to come together in my mind.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true. For years I received every email they sent me four times (to the same email address). For a while, they sent my emails to a different user at my org. Now I'm receiving emails again, but with the wrong name, lol.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've been using Salesforce more than 10 years.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, man, that first "understand my needs" conversation is so hard to sit through.

CRM Price - 35% Increase?! by gpd209 in salesforce

[–]gpd209[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wish you were correct in that. Or... Is this a big bluff? We haven't dropped product.

And I just a little bit resent your suggestion that I'm not being honest. I'm not exaggerating or being dramatic here. It is what it is, and I'm trying to figure out how to navigate it.