So putting drm in your tractors isnt giving you enough money so you fire hundred of employees? are there any chances that all or some of them suggested to remove your stupid drm that is affecting farmers all around the word?
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So payback for right-to-repair? Feh. They’d have done it anyway. Flag-wavers in farm country expecting some incoming cognitive dissonance.
Payback wasn't the point, I was just providing some context. John Deere sucks for multiple reasons.
7-8 billion actually. But I suppose they rounded up.
https://thehill.com/business/4750201-john-deere-laying-off-hundreds-of-midwest-workers/
Ah, it's last year vs this year. I get it.
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What a weird choice to have an image of Pritzker for this article.
Agreed. I don’t know much about the source but it might just be an indication of the author’s intent, if there is a human author.
There is a much better image choice to be used and it would not take much effort.
Update: Saw the pic, read the article, but didn’t realize the forum until afterwards. Will just move and pretend.
I just noticed other articles about California and Michigan. They also used Newsome and Whitmer as the image. But then another for Georgia did not use Kemp as the image.
All three have one thing in common: named as potential replacements.
Media moves quick to burn.
Sounds like there is a motive. Typically I sample the headlines and read a site’s “About Us” page before diving in.
It was early, I saw a familiar face, and started reading. Also this very subgroup is a tad bit too general for my taste. Never again.
Why is the picture of pritzker? Is he laying people off?
That was last quarter. You don't have to be very good at economics to look at world crop supplies, the age of the current farming equipment fleet, and other such data and conclude this next year will be tough for ag companies like Deere.
Of course the above is nothing new - ag is a cyclical business, you see the above ever 5-10 years. Previous to the current CEO the last layoffs of this type of position was the mid 1980s - several other CEOs saw the same signs the current one does and were able to manage it without layoffs.
Are you feeling sorry for a soulless company that they didn't steal enough pay from the employees and now they need to fire people to improve their quarterly report?
I'm strictly reporting facts. How you feel about them is your decision. Though I suspect you didn't read everything I wrote if you come to that conlusion.