r/JohnDeereEmployees

I’m curious, how does someone with a documented history like this end up moving into a position of upper management and making decisions that affect other employees?

I’m not posting this as a “let’s shit on the guy” post. I genuinely want to understand how the hiring/promotion process works here when someone has this kind of history.

These are public court documents. Read them for yourselves and draw your own conclusions.

What I find especially crazy is that some of us have spent 20+ years working our asses off here, while someone can apparently be hired and climb into a position of authority in roughly half that time.

For what it’s worth, I realize people can change and learn from past mistakes. However, after working under this individual for a decent amount of time now, I genuinely don’t believe he should be in the position he is in.

I’m honestly curious what other Deere employees think about this.

Hello all,

I am working on a class project about how farms coordinate stuff like irrigation, equipment, and fertilizer scheduling. Part of it involves looking at platforms like John Deere Operations Center and how they handle data collection.

If anyone here works with Deere equipment/software, or has experience with how that data gets collected and shared, I'd love to ask a few questions. Doesn't have to be anything deep or technical, just trying to understand the basics from someone who's actually used it. Comments or DMs both fine.

Thanks in advance, and no worries if this isn't the right sub for it.

About every 1:1 we discuss looking for career opportunities also all orgs have a goal for percent movement in head count. I am ok were I’m at currently, feeling pressured to move on even though I’ve gotten outstanding 3 years in a row.

For the last year there have been 5 jobs at a time average in the grade above that are not engineering based. And 3 jobs two grades above with the same thing. All other job postings in my grade feel like going back to kindergarten.

Now I’ve attempted for some promotions. Multiple times leadership has steam rolled it as they keep saying “we don’t think you will like it long term”.

If I wasn’t asked about my next move or stressed that none of the projects I’ve been assigned on align with my gpm goals this year. I really wouldn’t care.

I’m a life long Deere and have always thought “why would you ever leave”. This past year I have put a lot of thought into “what am I doing here?”