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by CobrastanJorji 847 days ago
One can safely assume Salesforce has very well made internal Tableau visualizations of Salepserson performance. That sort of failure would almost certainly show up with crisp drop shadows.

It is a shame, however, that the behavior of the sales rep probably made the renewals rep's chart look bad if not worse.

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> the behavior of the sales rep

probably made the sales rep chart for "outreach activity" tick up

and the renewals rep's chart was fired because they didnt hit their target

> It is a shame, however, that the behavior of the sales rep probably made the renewals rep's chart look bad if not worse.

Is the fate of commissioned salespeople to be eaten by other commissioned salespeople.

They could have, but I can promise you that if they have Tableau visualizations _at all_ at this point, they're shit.

Letting something "die on the vine" is the only way to describe Salesforce's Tableau acquisition.

> One can safely assume Salesforce has very well made internal Tableau visualizations of Salesperson performance.

I can't decide whether this statement is ironic or not. Salesforce is just another big company, with committees and meetings and crisp charts that exist only to show numbers going up, not to actually identify anything as boring as actual operational performance.

Sales teams often punish reps for many things out of their control. It’s pretty dumb.