Pros
Be outside, work with plants and see animals that all keep morale high, coworkers are nice and everyone works hard
Cons
The last two years have been fine and even enjoyable, but this season (Spring 2026) I was immediately met with an iron fist. I have worked here for two seasons before this and it was never this bad. Suddenly, they expect you to be inhuman. They seem to want you to be giving 120% the entire shift. Unpaid lunches also makes it feel like you are not treated like a person. I worked a single weekend back here and was immediately barraged with complaints. No praise for any of the work I had done aside from one comment in a text.
Again it was not at all like this before. This new environment felt like the company had received a surge of capitalistic greed. Why are you wanting us to be doing a genuinely impossible amount of work for something as unserious as putting plants together?
I was expected to make sure every single table was filled, while also making sure everything was in the right place, while also having to take photos (new this season) of every table I completed. There are only two of us on weekends and the store is not small. The management would be extremely strict and judgmental of everything I did or showed them. If I took a photo of a table they would circle parts of the photos where there were gaps, as if I work at a store where people do not buy things.
You want me to fill tables, but you also want product to sell. When it is sold, it is no longer on the table. I cannot refill holes the entire shift when I have other things I have to be doing that you told me to do.
It is as if they had forgotten that we work at a store. When product sells, it is no longer on the table! There will be gaps. People will buy things when I am off the clock.
I'm a human. Treat me like one.