u/ControlAway5102

So I was at a park near Murray High School earlier. There's an Indian guy walking with his wife and kids, just minding their business, normal family day out.

A couple of junior high kids nearby start loudly joking about "call centers." You know the stereotype. They weren't directly in the family's face or anything, just said it out in the open like it was the most normal thing in the world.

That's what got me. No hesitation. No lowered voice. Just casual.

I'm a white guy so maybe I'm late to noticing this stuff, but watching that happen in front of that family's own kids hit different. Those kids just learned something about how people see them in their own neighborhood.

That family isn't sitting there thinking "well at least nothing illegal happened." They're just hurt. And the kids who caused it don't even know they did.

Here's the thing though. Those junior high kids are going to leave Murray eventually. College, jobs, whatever. Their boss might be Indian. Their coworker, their client. And they're going to walk in thinking these jokes are just normal social currency.

That won't go well for them.

Being casually racist is easy when nobody around you pushes back. But the modern world has no patience for people who can't read a room. That stuff gets punished hard. Careers, friendships, opportunities, sometimes gone over one moment that felt like nothing.

Murray has good people in it. But if the schools and community aren't teaching kids how the actual world works, they're setting those kids up to fail outside of this bubble. That's not an attack, that's just honest.

These kids aren't evil. They're just not being prepared. And that's on the adults around them.

[supprimé]

Not trying to trash Salesforce. Big enterprises aren't going anywhere and that's fine.

But the certification path that used to make sense has noe gotten expensive and exhausting. The platform keeps expanding with AI, Data Cloud, automation layers and you're expected to keep up with all of it just to stay employable. For someone outside the US betting real savings on a career switch, that's a lot to ask with no guaranteed payoff.

I've watched people quietly abandon their cert prep this year and just... move on.

Fewer people entering the ecosystem means companies pay more to hire, consultants get more expensive, and what used to feel like a safe choice starts feeling like an expensive one.

Also the 2023 layoffs still sit weird with me. 8,000 people cut, AI cited as the reason. Meanwhile Salesforce was hiring in cheaper markets at the same time. The jobs didn't disappear they moved. "AI" just made for a cleaner announcement.

Alternatives are getting harder to ignore too, Im seeing tons of dynamic crm job postings compared to a few years back. Not because they're better necessarily, but because they're simpler and cheaper, and dont have a certification barrier which for a lot of companies is enough.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Curious if others are seeing the same thing or if I'm off base.