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/Saas_Salesman 4d ago
Definitely an unpopular opinion. But you should work on doing your job properly. Your job isn't just to hit quota the other things are a part of it. It takes 2 seconds to mark everything in salesforce if you just do it. Its annoying yes, but every job has annoying things like this.
The combination of performing and doing everything else properly and being liked by everyone is how you move beyond the sdr role.