Odds of Walmart Job Transfer To a Small PA Town From Out-Of-State

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by eclipticX

Thanks.
I think there is 'super-max' prison in or just east of Waynesburg. I wouldn't want to be near that kind of vibe. Uniontown looks nice, though.

Unless you become a resident of the prison you won't really get any vibe. In fact, you probably have to go out of your way to even see it. And the employees will actually have jobs and money to spend.

[escilade18]

Originally Posted by eclipticX

Thanks.
I think there is 'super-max' prison in or just east of Waynesburg. I wouldn't want to be near that kind of vibe. Uniontown looks nice, though.

The prison is back away from the town. Unless you head there you won't even know where it is. Waynesburg has much more of a college town vibe (Waynesburg University) and I have seen some Natural Gas Drillers around. The Uniontown Wal-Mart is a nice store

[NewJerseyMemories]

Originally Posted by eclipticX

Wonder what the odds are of a walmart job transfer to a small town in PA from out-of-state.
Maybe a transfer to a small walmart in Corry, or Meadville...a 1 entrance walmart?

Been considering a transfer from an out-of-state walmart to a small town walmart in say Corry, Meadville, or some other small town in WPA or SWPA--yeah I know it isn't a glamorous job, but it's a job.

Given the small towns size and smaller size of walmarts that take residence in them, I would assume a small walmart would not have jobs open for transfer, as a small town job is probably coveted by the locals, even if it is walmart, bar disagreements with mgrs and other circumstances.

Just wondering because I can pick several walmarts for transfer and don't want to waste a pick on a walmart that is never hiring or taking transfers.

Thanks for reading and perhaps someone has always wanted to ask this same question but hasn't.

Does Walmart allow transfers? When I worked for Macy's you could quit one store and had to wait three months to apply to another store. You couldn't transfer. I guess they wanted people not to jump from one location to another for no reason.

Of course you started all over again salary wise, no matter how much time you had put in. I mean, if you were at $11.00/hr at one Macy's, you might start over again at the new one at $8.00/hr.

[Icy Tea]

I'm not from that area but get there every two years or so so I do know something about it.
Cost of living: Its about the same as in my area of SE Pa for food and gasoline. Wages seem to be about 10% lower. Where you do make out is that land and housing is cheap up there, Meadville in particular. Jobs seem to be kind of scarce but you are close to the new fracking zone so maybe a commute would work or you could look just a bit farther east.
On Wal Mart, managers seem to get moved around and might be able to pick a new area more easily. I know a woman who moved to California hoping to transfer to a Wal Mart out there and never got an opening so she moved back. New jobs at Wal Mart seem to be 4 day a week, 32 hour positions or less, across the board, except for management. But they always seem to be looking for truck drivers and distribution center workers. Woodland Pa off I 80 has a distribution center, Schuylkill County has a food distribution center and maybe a regular one as well. There's a Wal Mart off 1 80 around Clearfield Pa somewhere.
I wasn't too impressed with Meadville but Franklin and Titusville seemed to have a little more small town charm. The area is nice for rural scenery. Warren Pa is kind of a tourist trap along route 66( high gas prices) but is right next to an awesome lake and natural area in the mountains.

[eclipticX]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Unless you become a resident of the prison you won't really get any vibe. In fact, you probably have to go out of your way to even see it. And the employees will actually have jobs and money to spend.

Indeed

[eclipticX]

Originally Posted by Icy Tea

I'm not from that area but get there every two years or so so I do know something about it.
Cost of living: Its about the same as in my area of SE Pa for food and gasoline. Wages seem to be about 10% lower. Where you do make out is that land and housing is cheap up there, Meadville in particular. Jobs seem to be kind of scarce but you are close to the new fracking zone so maybe a commute would work or you could look just a bit farther east.
On Wal Mart, managers seem to get moved around and might be able to pick a new area more easily. I know a woman who moved to California hoping to transfer to a Wal Mart out there and never got an opening so she moved back. New jobs at Wal Mart seem to be 4 day a week, 32 hour positions or less, across the board, except for management. But they always seem to be looking for truck drivers and distribution center workers. Woodland Pa off I 80 has a distribution center, Schuylkill County has a food distribution center and maybe a regular one as well. There's a Wal Mart off 1 80 around Clearfield Pa somewhere.
I wasn't too impressed with Meadville but Franklin and Titusville seemed to have a little more small town charm. The area is nice for rural scenery. Warren Pa is kind of a tourist trap along route 66( high gas prices) but is right next to an awesome lake and natural area in the mountains.

Thanks for the input.
I probably should have re-worded my post better.
What I was trying to say is, what are the odds of someone in a small town leaving their job, thus creating a job vacancy for a possible transfer or new hire. I know about walmart's transfer policy and walmart allows an employee to pick 10 walmarts for possible transfer. If any of those walmarts have openings then there is a job waiting at that walmart.
Current walmart employees will have 'seniority' for those jobs. It is often dept mgr type jobs, but even cashier jobs are not excluded for transfers.

I would imagine the odds in a small town, where very little job opportunities exist for incoming transfers, is probably almost nil.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by eclipticX

Thanks for the input.
I probably should have re-worded my post better.
What I was trying to say is, what are the odds of someone in a small town leaving their job, thus creating a job vacancy for a possible transfer or new hire. I know about walmart's transfer policy and walmart allows an employee to pick 10 walmarts for possible transfer. If any of those walmarts have openings then there is a job waiting at that walmart.
Current walmart employees will have 'seniority' for those jobs. It is often dept mgr type jobs, but even cashier jobs are not excluded for transfers.

I would imagine the odds in a small town, where very little job opportunities exist for incoming transfers, is probably almost nil.

I think that you're right. Someone might retire or leave due to medical concerns but it's not likely that anyone is going to jump ship for a better job in town.

[SorryIMovedBack]

Pennsylvania QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
^ There are your PA Census quick facts. Rural NW PA is Poverty Dump. The competition for unskilled jobs is enormous, because (subtracting out teachers, nurses, and licensed tradesmen) the population has a high school education or less and really isn't trained for anything other than minwage jobs or manual labor.

Why would you even want to move to Crawford County? Most of these small towns here in NW PA only exist at all because once upon a time 100 years ago they had a thriving steel mill or a factory of some sort. And by and large, those factories have all shut down. The drug problems are rampant as is alcoholism. People are going broke, and their towns are flat broke and crime ridden. Do you really want to live and work with a bunch of drunks and druggie hicks? Are you female? The women's lifestyle here is family drudgework subordinate slave. The men are wife-beating rednecks and/or grungy tattooed circus freak shows on Harleys. (Seriously. Conneaut Lake on weekends when the bikers swarm it, looks like a Village People convention. One big gay male tattooed freak show on Hawgs.) Do you truly LOVE a never-ending downward spiral of aging, declining health, poverty, decay, rot, rust, economic collapse, and despair? Is that the kind of environment that will enrich children's lives?

No? Then, if you want rural PA then look over East. Not west of Harrisburg. The problem with NW PA is that so far as the state is concerned, nothing west of Harrisburg even exists except for Pittsburgh. Western PA was always mill towns and factories. The thriving ag areas are over East. Greene county (Waynesburg) is close to Pittsburgh, but still looks to hardscrabble to me, to be worth locating to or investing in. All of these little financially ruined western PA burgs might have been great at one time, like into the early '80s, but are shot to Hades now. AVOID!

[eclipticX]

Originally Posted by SorryIMovedBack

Pennsylvania QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
^ There are your PA Census quick facts. Rural NW PA is Poverty Dump. The competition for unskilled jobs is enormous, because (subtracting out teachers, nurses, and licensed tradesmen) the population has a high school education or less and really isn't trained for anything other than minwage jobs or manual labor.

Why would you even want to move to Crawford County? Most of these small towns here in NW PA only exist at all because once upon a time 100 years ago they had a thriving steel mill or a factory of some sort. And by and large, those factories have all shut down. The drug problems are rampant as is alcoholism. People are going broke, and their towns are flat broke and crime ridden. Do you really want to live and work with a bunch of drunks and druggie hicks? Are you female? The women's lifestyle here is family drudgework subordinate slave. The men are wife-beating rednecks and/or grungy tattooed circus freak shows on Harleys. (Seriously. Conneaut Lake on weekends when the bikers swarm it, looks like a Village People convention. One big gay male tattooed freak show on Hawgs.) Do you truly LOVE a never-ending downward spiral of aging, declining health, poverty, decay, rot, rust, economic collapse, and despair? Is that the kind of environment that will enrich children's lives?

No? Then, if you want rural PA then look over East. Not west of Harrisburg. The problem with NW PA is that so far as the state is concerned, nothing west of Harrisburg even exists except for Pittsburgh. Western PA was always mill towns and factories. The thriving ag areas are over East. Greene county (Waynesburg) is close to Pittsburgh, but still looks to hardscrabble to me, to be worth locating to or investing in. All of these little financially ruined western PA burgs might have been great at one time, like into the early '80s, but are shot to Hades now. AVOID!

Kind of sounds like where I live now in Western NC. Trailers, attitudes, some racism and knife fights. Some bikers too. I visited Meadville to Erie area not long ago, but only for a couple of days. It didn't seem that bad and people seemed polite. I was also looking at Somerset county PA area or NY around Syracuse to Canastota.

I didn't get a drug, redneck feel to the area. More of a country farming, Amish feel.