Pros
Easy job. Decent pay (relatively great for what the job is) and benefits. Show up, pass your speed drills and arithmetic tests, pay attention, and push whatever tables management tells you to, and you're a top 1% employee. For someone who just wants to coast through life, Knighted is a solid option. Similarly if you're in school and just need a cozy outpost to support yourself in the short-to-mid term. Schedules are typically the same days and times every week, schedule changes take awhile but can be accommodated eventually. Some locations, but not all, have 4-day workweeks available. Management generally tries to be accommodating and lax. If you want to break into dealing Poker, which is more money but part-time, this is a good entry point for that. Many of my coworkers quit to work as Poker dealers.
Cons
Hygiene: Gambling facilities are disgusting. Notice the grime buildup on the table felts and Poker chips. Effects on the psyche: 1. The job becomes boring quickly. Every shift drags. 2. Negativity everywhere. Customers will always be upset, swearing, snide because they're losing. There's no solution you can provide them because you can't tell them to stop gambling and they wouldn't stop if you did. 3. There is a nonzero chance that you'll become a gambler yourself. Job Satisfaction: 1. There's a pejorative term management has for describing the Game Associate role: a warm body to fill a seat. The issue being that it's a mostly true description of the job, albeit exaggerated. 2. If you are skilled, intelligent, ambitious, goal-oriented, or have career ambitions but already completed your education, Knighted Gaming has nothing for you. They don't know what to do with those people because there's no path into a position they need. Career Advancement: 1. Management -- Your competition is weak but there aren't many openings. One of the main metrics they rate employees on is their Pai Gow speed drill, and it's so highly regarded that they literally believe that one's speed drill score is tied to how capable one is as leading people. 95% of their promotion decisions come down to politics (i.e., how well you're able to become buddies with management). If you're socially inept, incompetent, and/or have only been there for a month, just beat out your competition in the speed drill and butter up management. 2. HR -- Only 3 people in the state get to be in HR. Good luck. 3. IT department -- Nonexistent. They contract 3rd party solutions for that.