halfmanhalfbronco Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Today I got my garden mostly ready. I pulled up all the weeds and about 400 pounds of sod that had grown over the mild winter. I turned the soil and added all the compost from the compost pile of last spring/summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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retrofade Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I'm been walking 7-8 miles every day and doing body weight exercises with a resistance band. I've also been working on studying for a Salesforce Admin certification to try and help me get a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfmanhalfbronco Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, retrofade said: I'm been walking 7-8 miles every day and doing body weight exercises with a resistance band. I've also been working on studying for a Salesforce Admin certification to try and help me get a job. My last two companies have used UIs on salesforce. It is remarkablly flexible software. I am somewhat of a self taught wizard on it, the entire company relies on me to make to pull reports and make dashboards. Good on ya Retro. No homo but I feel we are kindered spirits in a lot of ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DestinFlPackfan Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 23 minutes ago, halfmanhalfbronco said: Paint/stain/treat the rest of your fence to match the one 4x4. It sticks out like a turd in a punch bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfmanhalfbronco Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, DestinFlPackfan said: Paint/stain/treat the rest of your fence to match the one 4x4. It sticks out like a turd in a punch bowl. Do not even get me started. I have been trying to do that for 3 years. I offered to do all the labor for free but I would like my neighbors to split the supply cost with me. They will not as they are renters and the landlord in question refuses to have me do the labor, wants it done professionally. I can never reach her to talk about it. The fence needs replaced not stained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
406bleedsblue Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Building the wife a greenhouse. I'm an iron worker and hate working with wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrofade Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, halfmanhalfbronco said: My last two companies have used UIs on salesforce. It is remarkablly flexible software. I am somewhat of a self taught wizard on it, the entire company relies on me to make to pull reports and make dashboards. Good on ya Retro. No homo but I feel we are kindered spirits in a lot of ways. I really enjoyed using it when I was at a startup a few years ago. Developing dashboards is a blast for me, and I've also been helping my wife out with her Salesforce implementation at work to design dashboards that her boss wants but she doesn't have time for. I need a change in what I've been doing, while still sticking in IT. I enjoy IT admin work, but don't really want to be a sysadmin again, but a software admin is a different story... plus SFDC Admins, Devs, and Architects are in short supply. Oh, and yeah, I agree on the kindred spirit thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPslograd Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Great thread. My wife closed her office and is working from home. My kids are home since school is closed. Construction is deemed an essential industry so I'm still working normally for now. But they aren't pouring many new slabs, so I'll take a major hit in about six weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPslograd Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, retrofade said: I really enjoyed using it when I was at a startup a few years ago. Developing dashboards is a blast for me, and I've also been helping my wife out with her Salesforce implementation at work to design dashboards that her boss wants but she doesn't have time for. I need a change in what I've been doing, while still sticking in IT. I enjoy IT admin work, but don't really want to be a sysadmin again, but a software admin is a different story... plus SFDC Admins, Devs, and Architects are in short supply. Oh, and yeah, I agree on the kindred spirit thing. Salesforce and all other CRMs are useful if implemented throughout the company, unfortunately that's not normally the case in my experience. So for me it's basically a call report, so I hate it. Currently using microsoft crm but have also used salesforce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfmanhalfbronco Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 minute ago, CPslograd said: Salesforce and all other CRMs are useful if implemented throughout the company, unfortunately that's not normally the case in my experience. So for me it's basically a call report, so I hate it. Currently using microsoft crm but have also used salesforce. The problem is too many companies try and implement it fix shit that ain't broke, so it gets a bad rap. With how flexible the software is you can set it up to do just about anything but if you do not have the right people doing that it can be a cumbersome pain in the ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold-n-brown Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Rediscovering my vinyl collection. Got a little painting done but mostly watching bad tv. Still working but we are reevaluating day by day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrofade Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, CPslograd said: Salesforce and all other CRMs are useful if implemented throughout the company, unfortunately that's not normally the case in my experience. So for me it's basically a call report, so I hate it. Currently using microsoft crm but have also used salesforce. SFDC is technically powerful enough to run an entire company outside of an ERP, and even then there are addons that can almost fake that as well. The problem with my wife's company is that it was implemented half-ass and they have other systems for other things, so it's been a debacle project for over a year for her trying to get everyone using it and for IT to get it configured properly for that use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPslograd Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, retrofade said: SFDC is technically powerful enough to run an entire company outside of an ERP, and even then there are addons that can almost fake that as well. The problem with my wife's company is that it was implemented half-ass and they have other systems for other things, so it's been a debacle project for over a year for her trying to get everyone using it and for IT to get it configured properly for that use. CRM is widely integrated into the hotel business, so it is very useful there. In my business it seems like just outside sales uses it, so it's not so helpful. If credit, ISS, service, and shipping also updated it regularly, it would be a great tool. Instead of calling shipping or my ISR, I could just check CRM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevada Convert Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Productive shit I’m doing? Well, when I’m taking a shit, I try to be productive by reading about interesting historical events that I’m not totally familiar with, or if I’m going to have to fix something that day, I’ll watch some DIY YouTube videos. So when the toilet flushes, I’m read to hit the ground running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupslam1 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I like being a lazy phuck and blaming it on the virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrofade Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 1 minute ago, CPslograd said: CRM is widely integrated into the hotel business, so it is very useful there. In my business it seems like just outside sales uses it, so it's not so helpful. If credit, ISS, service, and shipping also updated it regularly, it would be a great tool. Instead of calling shipping or my ISR, I could just check CRM. Yeah, in an ideal world, you'd either have all of that running through SFDC, or at least have integrations that were properly populating that information into the CRM for users to have a unified platform to access it. We used it at a startup as our ticket management system, Jira was integrated for bug tracking, escalations to engineering happened through it, and a whole host of other things. It was probably the best implementation that I've seen, but they used it practically from when the company was created, so business processes were built around it rather than the other way around like most companies do things right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJSUMFA2013 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Been working more hours at home than I ever did in the office. The rest of the time I thank my lucky stars I’m a monogamous introvert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 54 minutes ago, halfmanhalfbronco said: My last two companies have used UIs on salesforce. It is remarkablly flexible software. I am somewhat of a self taught wizard on it, the entire company relies on me to make to pull reports and make dashboards. Good on ya Retro. No homo but I feel we are kindered spirits in a lot of ways. 46 minutes ago, retrofade said: I really enjoyed using it when I was at a startup a few years ago. Developing dashboards is a blast for me, and I've also been helping my wife out with her Salesforce implementation at work to design dashboards that her boss wants but she doesn't have time for. I need a change in what I've been doing, while still sticking in IT. I enjoy IT admin work, but don't really want to be a sysadmin again, but a software admin is a different story... plus SFDC Admins, Devs, and Architects are in short supply. Oh, and yeah, I agree on the kindred spirit thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfmanhalfbronco Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, toonkee said: It is 2020 bro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...