The management was bad for my health. - Anonymous employee Penn State Employee Review

2.0
14 May 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers were fantastic. Creative projects. A willingness to hear you out on ideas and sometimes give you a shot at implementing them. Since the Sandusky scandal, things have been slowly improving.

Cons

Poor pay compared to industry standards; many employees didn't even earn a living wage for the region. Class divisions between management and workers; I often felt like I was being treated like a second-class citizen. Abuse of 'part-time' employees, who often worked 40 hours per week doing the same work as their 'full-time' peers with no benefits and lower wage. Toxic management environment. To put it bluntly, I was less shocked than I should have been by the Sandusky scandal.

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5.0
27 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

They were very flexible with hours and it was a fun place to work. There was lots of downtime to do other things while on the clock, and an e-bike to get around campus quickly.

Cons

Toward the end they got pretty strict about keeping your computer on a certain tab to take online tickets, and you could get in trouble for not doing it. It’s tedious work overall.

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