Hodge Reviews

Managers speak to employees disrespectfully. Corp knows it and does nothing effective about it. "Irreplaceable people" abuse their position. Do not take a job in the KITTING department, the mangers during the day shift are unprofessional and create a stressful environment They behave to intimidate,; yell, glare, and reprimand employees publicly. If you want to transfer to another department because of the hostile environment, it probably won't happen. You'll be stuck. Pickers, storers, unloaders, audit, putaway positions are better choices. LOTS of melodrama. You can "point out" pretty fast and will be terminated. If you are going to be late, miss work or aren't flexible, do not bother. Mandatory overtime is for real. When it's busy, you must work Saturdays, ten hour days. Schedules change frequently and quickly. Hard to plan your personal/family time. You are at their beck and call. If you don't know how to drive a fork truck, you better be able to learn quickly. Just taking a class somewhere isn't always enough. You need drive time. If you have ideas, management is not open to hearing them. Take your orders and do not question. This is a family run business, expect the nepotism and preferential treatment that goes with it. Unless you are in the "clique", you will be used and abused. Their only client is John Deere, they have been with them awhile, but there is always a chance they might lose that client. Definitely not an environment that demonstrates their core values.

This location is ran by 2 brothers that care about no one but themselves. They never come out to warehouse floor unless they are after someone for trouble. They treat employees as if they have no value. They don't pass down vital information to employees as they should, such as layoff dates which they knew about weeks prior, but didn't notify employees who were involved until the day of layoff. They keep lots of drama going. The operations manager and general supervisors are brothers and they target people and report false accusations against innocent people to corporate, this is unfair and corporate believes them because there's always a 2 against 1 story. I've witnessed veterans being targeted, tortured, and fired. I've also witnessed veterans leave the job due to the way that the brothers treat people. The brothers do whatever they want on company time, and violate may company policies including transferring firearms between vehicles, I've also heard stories of the general supervisor making sales involving firearms on the property. Two great supervisors that knew this company and warehouse are no longer employed here, one fired due to false accusations conspired by the brothers and the other left before false accusations led to their termination.