sales professional

tree climber

landscape foreman

inventory specialist

crew member

Moon-Valley-Nursery-Inc

Probably one, if not the worst, employer I have ever worked for. There were red flags from the beginning when each interview professional was late to each single interview, second interview gentleman was late by almost 15 minutes. Job duties are not bad at all and actually quite fun. You get to work around plants and get to move around throughout the day, you’re not stuck behind a screen or at a desk, so that’s nice. You also learn a lot of cool things about plants and design. The nursery crew and the planting crew are great people. They deserve the most and they are truly the driving force. The culture, if you can even call it that, is quite flawed. There are no concrete process and procedures for transactions, operations or management, everyone just shows up and figures it out day by day. Management does very little to support and motivate staff, meetings are strongly focused on transactional relationships and monetary value brought in to the company. And your manager asking you how you are doing? Forget about it. In the short time that I was there I experienced and watched others experience verbal abuse. (Ultimately why I parted ways with the company) 

The sales / commission structure starts at 7% of each sale you make. That includes sales at the register and sales made at desk. So for example, you close a deal for $10,000 (very common) you get $700 in commission while the company keeps $9300. They offer a draw, which just means they guarantee you a minimum pay every two weeks as a loan and you repay as you close more deals. Pretty reasonable. 

The most enjoyable part of the job is definitely the job duties, if you enjoy the balance of working outside from time to time and being able to move around. Learning about plants and design is a plus, and working with clients to make their visions come to life is super rewarding. 

The least enjoyable and hardest part is working for a company that has cracks in their foundation. There’s a reason why successfully large corporations have process and procedure. It keeps things flowing and moving in a direction that keeps everyone on track towards the same objective. It was hard showing up to work every day and not knowing what the correct process to follow. When I speak of process and procedure, I’m also including management. Having people in management that have no decorum or proper leadership skills is detrimental to your company. Somebody can be a top dog seller and a stellar lead designer, that does not always translate to leadership. If you want people to make you money, you have to make them care about you and you do that by caring about them. 

So the day starts off the same you show up grab your invoice's "pray they are all there" and then continue to load up all the trees/shrubs. Hopefully, your box count is less than 25 because anything over that is a struggle to get the plants on the truck based on what you are loading. You're forced to stack plants and trees on top of one another which will damage the plants in the process which will cause problems for you later on in the day. You do your stretching exercises and away you go. the one thing I loved about this job was making a customer happy and really transforming their backyard into something special. the best part of the job by far. everything thing from there is downhill. If you are a family man and actually enjoy spending time with your family this is not the job for you on average especially in the busy season you will work 6 days a week from February to May and you will work most days from 430am to4pm. some days very rarely you will get done around 1 pm but more times than not finishing around 4 to 5 sometimes even 7 pm. I would go home beat try to swallow some food and go to sleep because tomorrow with be the same thing. most days jobs are incomplete due to missing plants missing invoices or other various reasons. all this is doing is making customers yell at you and moving the work to a later date. You as the driver 90% of the time will get the blunt of the customer's anger even though your job is just to show up and plant some salesman or manager will mess up and you will still get the lash. the salesman and managers do not care about your well-being as long as you get their plants in the ground. it will be hot grueling hours every day all day so be ready for Hot Arizona. i hope this helps some folks gain a true grasp of what your in for its a good starting out for young single guys but if you are married with kids and enjoying seeing them stay away from this. Good luck oiut there

What is the best part of working at the company?
The opportunity to develop sales skills and gain experience in a performance-driven sales environment. The role focuses primarily on sales ability rather than requiring prior plant knowledge.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part was inconsistent management direction and a lack of clearly defined structure for advancement. The promotion process and expectations were not always transparent, which at times created confusion and uncertainty.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The culture is sales focused and performance driven. While day-to-day interactions can feel relaxed, the atmosphere becomes more intense during periods of lower sales performance, with increased oversight and accountability.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical weekdays, especially mornings, were relatively relaxed. Weekends, however, were highly sales-driven with strong expectations to be consistently on the floor and actively selling. Over time, company policies and oversight increased in an effort to drive higher sales performance, which made the overall environment feel more structured and less flexible.

My tenure at the prestigious company has been akin to a riveting rollercoaster ride, with the ups being the impressive digits on my paycheck, and the downs being pretty much every other facet of the job. The organization boasts of a generous compensation package, with an underlined promise of driving you to the precipice of your sanity. It's a paradoxical paradise where your bank balance burgeons while your spirit withers.

The higher echelons of this firm are populated by individuals who have mastered the fine art of incompetence. They have risen through the ranks, not by merit, but rather by their uncanny ability to embrace and propagate an alternate reality filled with corporate jargon and delusions of grandeur.

The corporate culture is reminiscent of a medieval fiefdom, where the serfs toiled for the comfort of the lords. The word "serfdom" might sound archaic, but it perfectly encapsulates the experience of being forever indebted to the organization, with the debt only ever seeming to increase.

In summation, it’s a test of endurance, a continual battle of wits against the corporate windmill. However, the silver lining is the salary. It is indeed a gilded cage, but the gilding is rather impressive.

Moon Valley is a shining example of what you do NOT look for in a company. The management is in constant limbo, which is no surprise when you interact even briefly with the owner. The structure forces employees to seek for answers in an unending progression of upper-management who refuse to communicate with each other, much less with their subordinates. Pricing is also ALWAYS "half off," which puts the sales person in an awkward position. The prices are not competitive either. The product is sub-par and always damaged in the wind. Imagine having to deal with all of that during 115° summer days in Las Vegas at a mere 7% commission. NOT WORTH IT!!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The owner is absolutely insane and throws things at you and screams at everyone that doesn't respond or act the exact way he wants them to in that exact moment. The manager is extremely degrading as well. I felt so little by the end of working there and it took me years to repair myself. If they weren't there the job and company would actually be awesome to work for. The other people there are amazing and the company is a cool company to work for it's just the owner and manager that made it difficult. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The owner and the IT manager. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Overall it's great other than when the owner or IT manager walks in the room. No joke everyone will instantly get quite and try to avoid contact.

they dont care about there employees easily disposable, management only promotes friends not hard workers you have to fit into there cliche, there over priced and steal from customers they would laugh at customers when they could get away with over charging them and would high five each other if they could scam a customer , also refused to give refunds and hold on to peoples money as long as they can.  there rude and put employees down they dont help you succeed and like to keep certain individuals down untill they quit ,  the owner and  managers only care about the money there making and dont care if there employees succeed they have been sued on several occasions for discrimination, overall you can only succeed there if you fit with in there little friends group  WORST COMPANY TO WORK FOR!!!!

Save your time, effort, and reputation and avoid this place.  Management is unorganized, inept, and always looking to pin the blame on anyone but their own lack of leadership.  Compensation is deplorable considering the astronomical markup on all items.  Don't fall for their sales lines that are drilled into the recruits heads.  The same products they claim to be unique can be found at Star and other box stores with the same grow tags at fractions of the cost.  

I watched managers protect each other in situations that would be immediate dismissals at other businesses.  Some even criminal in regard to discrimination of minorities and women.  This mindset flows from the very top of the chain and on down the line.  

Don't work here.

Don't shop here.

I could go on and on but this is just a horrible company to work for unless you're okay with isolating your family having no free time and selling your soul for money because they do pay well

You are required to work 10 to12 hours a day 6 days a week and ALL holidays. 
They really heavily on reactionary management.
Ultimatums and veiled threats are used as managerial tools by ALL management.
You are instructed (but not directly) to tell half truths or omit pertinent information about the inventory your selling.
Weekly motivational Saturday morning meeting's are on par with a high pressure telemarketing call center.
You are pressured (but not directly) to practice cut cutthroat car lot tactics treating your fellow employees as the enemy.  

Mentioned before, like a used car sales lot but instead they sell very nice trees at an extremely high over marked price. During training, they mention not to make the entrance look like a used car sales lot, but it is never enforced. There is no up system in place, if a senior pro doesn't see value in who they greet, they stay there and hope the next guest they talk to has potential value.

Management was 50/50, some genuinely helped and others just didn't care.

Turnover here is high, as mentioned in other reviews, if you don't produce, they will fire or lay you off. If you're not in with the "cool kids" they will fire or lay you off.

There is so much opportunity for improvement at this growing company, but all the CEO is worried about is pocketing the 60% profit made on the trees.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Sales professional 446 salaries reported	$184,267 per year
Tree climber 91 salaries reported	$30.19 per hour
Landscape foreman 8 salaries reported	$69,814 per year
Inventory specialist 4 salaries reported	$20.44 per hour
Crew member 73 salaries reported	$20.46 per hour

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