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

2.0
14 May 2013
Anonymous employee
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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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