0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In this clip you're
0:02about to watch, it's taken from a live
0:04stream
0:05I just did this weekend which was a desktop
0:07crash course. But this clip was at the very
0:10beginning of that course and I wanted to
0:11pull it out of that course and just put it
0:13as its
0:13own video here on the channel. So this is a
0:15clip that was recorded earlier this weekend
0:17.
0:17It's not a separate video but I wanted to
0:19just get this view on the Salesforce
0:21layoffs
0:22shared with more people so that you know
0:24what I think. But also, you can hopefully
0:26go and
0:26support them on LinkedIn and/or wherever
0:28they might be looking for new roles in the
0:30future.
0:30As ever, here's the clip. Thanks for
0:32watching and I'll see you in the next one.
0:34We better. Let me switch over to this view.
0:38It's actually probably worth… I think
0:41there
0:41is actually something really important to
0:42talk about just before we get started. You
0:44might not know this but over the last week
0:47Salesforce, the parent company of Tableau,
0:51launched layoffs that impacted all of Sales
0:54force but actually in my opinion, they've
0:57heavily
0:57impacted Tableau. And so I'm here today to
1:00show you how to use the software but on
1:04LinkedIn, if you're on LinkedIn, you maybe
1:06will have seen a lot of the people who
1:08helped
1:08build this product, looking for roles,
1:11looking for opportunities in the employment
1:13market
1:14today and some of them just looking for
1:16support as well. When people get laid off,
1:19it's
1:19not always necessary that they needed a job
1:21straight away. Sometimes people take the
1:23opportunity
1:23to have a break. Sometimes people just love
1:26to know that the work they've done has had
1:28a meaningful impact on people. That's what
1:32I definitely saw from a lot of the Tableau
1:34staff. I've been working with Tableau…
1:37How long have I been a Tableau community
1:40member?
1:40I've been a Tableau community member for
1:42about seven years but I've worked with
1:43their,
1:43let's say, community program for about
1:46three years. And as an ambassador and as
1:49now a visionary,
1:51one of the opportunities you get is to work
1:53really closely with developers to help
1:54improve
1:55the product. And I can hand on heart say
1:57that they are extremely professional. They
2:00care
2:00so passionately about the product. They
2:03take things to levels of detail that you
2:05probably
2:06don't even appreciate when you open
2:07software. You might think that there's such
2:09basic
2:10things missing from the product that people
2:13should have figured out. Formatting is a
2:16classic
2:16one that I normally quite commonly rail
2:18about. I always think that should be better
2:20. But
2:21the people who work on the product do know
2:22that. They do hear our messages. And it's
2:24actually the mechanics within an
2:26organization that stops some of that
2:27innovation coming
2:28through. And so in the last week, it's just
2:31really important to let them know that
2:33their
2:33work is appreciated. Let them know that
2:35their efforts, wherever they land, are
2:38going to
2:38always be appreciated by the community. I
2:41always think once you're a Tableau
2:42community
2:42member, you're always a Tableau community
2:45member. And in terms of us as users, how
2:47does
2:47this layoff impact us? Well, it doesn't
2:50impact us immediately. Some of these things
2:53take a while to materialize. If you work in
2:56product management, you'll know that road
2:58maps
2:58exist for a reason. Most of the features
3:00that you see today get planned months in
3:03advance,
3:03maybe years in advance. So we probably won
3:05't see any change today, tomorrow, next week
3:07.
3:07I'll still be here doing videos about Table
3:10au, whatever, 24.1 or whatever it is. But I
3:14think
3:14we do have to hold a more critical eye on
3:16the vision and the leadership of Tableau as
3:18things start to change. And so it's only
3:20right to sort of, in many ways, show
3:22respect
3:23for the work that's coming before the work
3:25that's coming ahead. And so yeah, if you
3:27can do that, just go to LinkedIn, show
3:29anyone who works at Tableau love and
3:30support. Whether
3:31or not they've been laid off, they all need
3:33lots of support. Because for those who
3:34are still there, they've lost valuable
3:37colleagues and leadership as well. So show
3:39them some
3:39love, let them know they're appreciated.
3:42And yeah, today we're hopefully going to be
3:44celebrating their work as much as we'll be
3:46learning a bit about Tableau. Okay? So that
3:48's
3:48all I'm going to say. I'm not going to go
3:51on to much more about it. The world's a
3:53tough
3:53place and we know these things happen. So
3:55let's just try and sort of take the pos
3:57itivity
3:57out of it.
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