A great learning experience! - Student Worker Penn State Employee Review

5.0
May 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Meet new people. Lots of students also apply to work there and during your shifts, you get to talk and become friends with many of them -Extremely considerate of class times thus flexible hours -Fairly easy work overall provided you are able-bodied (things like buffet server, cleaning up tables, deli area...). Typical restaurant stuff. -I personally found it pretty easy to get promoted and the pay increases while small and gradual, were nice

Cons

-Some places were short-staffed. This is not entirely a management problem but simply the fact that some commons simply had more people. And during your application, you can choose where you work

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5.0
Jun 27, 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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