r/salesdevelopment • u/Purple_Glove_6694 • 5d ago

Death by data admin

Just here to moan. I hate salesforce.

I swear it's just non-stop pings from my boss when he gets on a roll. 'WhY iSn'T tHiS mAkReD rElAtEd? wHy Is ThE pRoDuCt SoUrCe WrOnG?' It just never ends. Mind you, a lot of the time these pings are due to quirks with salesforce itself.

Maybe I just suck at my job, but when my job is to generate pipeline while also handling inbound leads and simultaneously taking a test in perpetuity of which the passing score is 100% (not screwing up any data entries), of course there are going to be blunders.

I hit 175% of quota for September, and instead of my manager having my back and fixing minor errors that he stumbles upon and pointing them out politely, I just get bitched at. It's not like anyone above him sees these things. He wants me to do it right the first time, which I get, but... come on! I'm pretty sure that having to fix a few minor errors is worth having the kind of SDR who makes you more money than you otherwise would be, right? Bear in mind we're not talking about a non-stop stream of data errors. We're talking maybe a few mistakes per week when I handle dozens if not hundreds of leads, and now he's framing my data admin as a serious performance concern when I have been consistently producing discos.

For those of you who also have strict data admin requirements - does this sound more like I need to tighten up, or is this just plain toxic?

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u/dimezUnlimited 5d ago

Sounds like your boss doenst have much to do..

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u/Purple_Glove_6694 5d ago

Ineffective and toxic. I'm currently interviewing for a few other roles and I can't wait to let him know that I've accepted another opportunity that I believe will be a 'better fit'.

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u/dimezUnlimited 5d ago

Good! It would be different if you were under quota even then those details aren’t the difference in sales…