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It is a customer service job. You'll be treated poorly by guests and you'll get tipped really well by others. Beware of the voulenteers, they think they are gods gift to plants and should be treated as such. 
The coworkers were great, its a good environment of hard working people with many different backgrounds. You dont have to be a specific kind of person to have a good time there, but it is helpful if you have a sense of humor and care about people. The hardest part of the job is the hours on your feet and the taxing work of hitting the ground running in the morning for the morning coffee rush and then tearing around non stop for 2-4 hours of lunch rush. They close at 5, so there isn't much of a dinner rush. The management is okay. There will always be problems and there is no such thing as a perfect workplace, so i can confidently say ive had far worse bosses. Your life is much easier if you can get in good with them, but not everyone has it in them to be buddy buddy like that. If you dont but you show up to work on time and dont call in every week and stay on good terms, you'll do just fine. The most enjoyable part of the job besides the good pay for me was learning every station and how to be proficient in it. Cooking, cashier, serving, and barristaing are all on the table and its invaluable if you can be trained on them all. 

I loved this job when I started, and still appreciate so much about the gardens itself but in my department the management was offensively bad, actively detrimental to success and earnings, and offers no ladder for mobility. In particular, after having several employees leave I was left with a massive amount of work to take over on short notice. The stress of this job was immense and any requests for assitance were met with surprise and dismissal. The pay was good, but not in the context of the situation. The pay is all that kept me there as long as I stayed. Numerous complaints have been lodged on multiple occasions against this manager, but they seem to be protected by upper management above them who refuse to look at the problem, instead letting countless good employees walk out the door. 

Fun job, nice variety in the schedule throughout the year, great people to work with for the most part but upper management is a mess. Employee's strengths aren't recognized but they won't hesitate to point out understandable mistakes. Management can be real petty too, if you annoy someone then your chances of moving up through the organization diminishes unless you really advocate for yourself. 

But that being said, this is also a really good job to learn how to advocate for yourself and learn healthy ways of engaging with customers without taking it personally as there are also very healthy managers that will support you as you learn. It's a mixed bag. You have some of the best people you'll ever meet along with a few petty people that can really bring down the mood, but it's more good people than bad

Beautiful place to work. Unfortunately there is a high turnover rate of staff due to the volume of work, hours,lack of direction and support of upper management. Management was continually changing procedures when there wasn't staff or time to learn new things as it was busy season.  Clients were unhappy with lack of customer service that could be provided with the lack of staff available to return phone calls, do tours and set up meetings with clients. Extremely stressful environment to work in.
Best place to be was the gardens. The horticulture staff do a fantastic job in making it beautiful!!

As a grower, I was interested in learning more about food production, but what I got was a lesson in dysfunctional management. I was told at the start that there had been a history of interpersonal issues on the job. It appeared nothing had been done to resolve this from year to year. The management is lacking appropriate people skills, and co-workers were drenched in gossip that droned on endlessly. Employees are expected to "work" through breaks and lunch which exacerbates interpersonal issues. If you enjoy working with petulant children for co-workers and management with big egos, this is the place for you!

The departments here do not work together well. There is some resentment that the gardens has become a a place of science and arts, and not just a place of great beauty. Many of the executives clearly do not work well together and it trickles down to the employees. The people are nice, and well educated but it feels dysfunctional as everyone is not on board with the direction of the institution.

Loved working here for the first year and a half. As the years go on it gets very taxing on you as you're not only selling the event but also have to manage the entire event you booked. Beautiful environment to work in. Management is not accepting of changes and does not communicate with other departments well.

The management in the maintenance department attempted to create ever-shifting production targets and expectations and a cut-throat work environment. Luckily most of the employees were not on board with this, circumventing management's attempts to stir the pot. The pay was not anywhere close to be able to afford living in Denver, even with full-time work.

Some positions at the Gardens are fairly easy to work in, assuming you are comfortable with talking to the public. Some days can be very slow, and with a customer-geared position, your day becomes slow. On the bright side, on busy days you do not have to worry about too many tasks to get done for your job is simply for the sake of guests and their experience. 

I worked with Denver Botanic Gardens for nearly two decades. First as a contractor, then an employee, and then again as contractor again. The individuals that have chosen to work at DBG are wonderful and talented, and have my respect and admiration. 

The daily work at Denver Botanic Gardens can be tedious but rewarding.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Gardener 6 salaries reported	$21.67 per hour
Event assistant 8 salaries reported	$22.19 per hour
Sales associate 3 salaries reported	$28.94 per hour
Program instructor 4 salaries reported	$26.94 per hour
Membership representative 6 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour

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