The city of Yuma
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5/20/2009
Yuma's community is so sheltered that they really think their way of life is the end-all-be-all to everything. It's either THEIR WAY or NO WAY. They do not understand, appreciate nor respect the value of a good education or college degree. Everything is backwards here! The top level/managerial job positions are held by people who do not have degrees. This is because these people hire other people they know; regardless of their qualifications. In fact, if you have a degree and move to this city for job opportunities, forget it! The local community is absolutely threatened by people with great qualifications and college degrees. If you even mention that you have a degree, you will be alienated and ostracized because they are scared that you will beat them out of their jobs. Wherever you happen to work here in Yuma, you will find that there will be an extremely high turnover rate of employees. This happens because there is an absurd process of employment that the community of Yuma operates under. First, as mentioned before, people in advantageous positions hire their under-qualified, non-degree holding relatives and/or friends. (Mind you, these people are hardly qualified to do their jobs because they always "wing it," but act like they know what they're doing.) Then they hire fully qualified and experienced degree holders to work for the under-qualified managers. The under-qualified managers make a myriad of terrible decisions that only put the entire organization or company under tremendous pressure to pick up the pieces. (It's a trickle-down effect.) What happens next, is the qualified degree holders that they should have hired in the first place, are stretched so thin because of the awful decision-making; that they are pushed to the brink of insanity, then eventually quit. The cycle then repeats itself all over again. If you don't believe me, then research the statistics of turnover rates here in Yuma.
john | Yuma, AZ