Review of Fort Davis, Texas


Best and worst people living together
Star Rating - 9/24/2016
Fort Davis 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 Fort Davis 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 Fort Davis. One real example: the largest employer in Fort Davis is Village Farms, an hydroponic greenhouse that sucks all the clean precious underground water to fill it with chemicals and turn it back to the environment, hired a "star party organizer" from the Observatory as a Safety Manager for 65K...white male no experience in agriculture, or in safety. Only a friend of a friend. He is still siting at his desk winging it...
Veronica | Tacoma, WA
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Sounds like sour grapes to me. Go for yourself and decide if this reviewer is correct. My husband and I love that area and have visited several times in the past 3 years. We find the people friendly, just as in most of Texas. I'm sure the reviewer had a terrible job experience, but in my own working experience of over 30 years I have seen the same type of hiring practices, and it was in a huge metropolitan area. Fort Davis is a VERY small unincorporated town (population 1100), and the atmosphere there is laid back. As for college graduates, let me just say that there are plenty of them working at the McDonald Observatory and in the town of Alpine (home to Sul Ross University) nearby. Perhaps the lack of "degreed" jobs available is what makes this little town so special to me.
Diane | Granbury, TX | Report Abuse

Thank you for this information.
Jadie | Altadena, CA | Report Abuse

College snob. I have a BS in Zoology but didn't know much till I bought and sold income property and farmed avocados, citrus, sub tropical fruit, flowers etc. You want real dumb: college grads that work for the government. I did that too for awhile.
steve | Carpinteria, CA | Report Abuse
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