lawn technician

lawn care specialist

park ranger

specialist

inside sales representative

NaturaLawn of America

Right off the bat, this branch of the company lies. I saw an ad on Craigslist for Sales Rep which said whoever was hired would receive $10/hr PLUS 5% commission. Once you get hired though, you find out you actually get $10/hr OR 5% commission, whichever is greater.
While I worked at NaturaLawn of America there were 8-10 other employees. It is a sales job, so you have to make a certain amount of sales every week for them to want to keep you on. Literally everyday that I came in to work, we were told, " You've gotta get your sales up, or we'll have to let you go". So there's really no job security.
Our manager was COMPLETELY unprofessional. She cursed all the time & allowed the other employees to curse even while other employees were on the phone with customers. She tried to portray a feeling of camaraderie with laughing & joking, then when HER boss came around she would make it seem as if the employees were goofing off on their own. I'd heard on first being employed that if you got too close to a certain other employee, whom the manager had once dated, you'd be fired. Regardless of how much you sold. I didn't give into office gossip but then I witnessed it for myself. A girl who made two sales in her first week on the phones was let go while a girl who'd made 0 was kept on. The girl who was fired had started to hang out with the certain other employee and our Manager didn't like it. Also, a short time after I was hired, a new crop of recruits came in, one of which was our manager's close friend. The company posts the hours you've accumulated for the pay period every day. I noticed that her friend had around the same amount of hours as the rest of us, even though she'd taken a day off (we did NOT get paid time off), gotten to work late 3 times that week, and left her desk an hour and a half early one night because she wasn't "feeling well" but hadn't clocked out and sat in our manager's office laughing and talking. I asked our manager about it and she said not to worry about it.
As far as work load, we were calling people at home to ask them about what they did with their lawn and see if they wanted our service. Unfortunately, we were constantly turned down, yelled at, ignored, or threatened because we were calling people who had been dissatisfied with our service and cancelled. We were also not allowed to take them out of our call log until we'd called and spoken to them 3 times. All employees got together and voiced our concerns because even Top Sellers weren't making any money, and we were brushed off and repeatedly promised that we would see a rise in sales in due time. We never did because we were never able to speak to new customers who may have actu ally been interested in working with us.
All in all,if you're just looking for one quick paycheck, this is the job for you. If you want to be able to grow and learn from the company this is not. You will be sorely disappointed.

This review is about the branch I worked at, this is not a review of NaturaLawn as a whole. 
Overall, my time working at NLA was good. The managers are down-to-earth people who are easy to talk to and want to help you succeed. We had office lunches and technician appreciation days and they would hand out gift cards as a way to express their gratitude for a job well done. 
However, the pay is not great. You get several early promotions that keep you motivated and happy for a little while but that fades. If you are interested in growing within the company, management is more than happy to assign you more responsibilities but do not expect a pay raise. Almost all technicians, even those employed for years, do not make over $20/hour. So if you are supporting a family or living on your own, it will be difficult to live off what they pay. If you are not passionate about lawn care or have a dream of owning a lawn care franchise then this is a job while you are in-between careers or just need to make some money right now. 
The responsibilities of the technician are treating and inspecting lawns, consulting with customers, providing solutions through sales, and giving best cultural practice guidelines. Additionally, management expects you to enforce their outdated door-hanging marketing tactics which produces very minimal results. 
The management team fails at utilizing current social media tools to better market their brand and they rely on word-of-mouth and their technicians to pick up their slack. 
You are also expected to try and recruit people to come work at NLA. 
If you are good at your job, they will utilize you as a trainer but will not pay you more for that added responsibility. They will use technicians who do not yet have their commercial licenses as trainers in order to get more vans on the road. This can put technicians in a difficult spot. So as a technician, you are also a salesman, marketer, trainer, and recruiter. Out of all these responsibilities, they will not increase your pay. Management truly believes all these responsibilities falls under the job title of 'lawn technician' even though that's not how they advertise their roles.   
They do provide good training but their training materials are outdated which can make the retention of concepts difficult. You will learn the most out in the field performing tasks. Unlike other agronomic companies, they will not do layoffs in the offseason which is nice so even when you are not treating lawns, you are bringing in a paycheck. 
As long as you show up to work on time, work hard, and remain teachable, you will have a job at NLA. The pay is poor for the amount of responsibilities management expects you to perform. Office parties and gift cards are nice but that doesn't put food on the table or a roof over your head.  



Mind you, each NLA location is independently owned and operated. The office I worked at will be different than others. In any case, the location in Wilmington, DE is a joke. Management is desperate and overworked by the owner, and tends to take it out on the employees. Mind you, there was one manager who could keep it real without putting other people down, but unfortunately one good person can't help an inherently toxic workplace. Not to mention the startling amount of nepotism. Family member employees can effectively do what they want without repercussion, though sometimes you get the lovely privilege of hearing full-on shouting matches between family members now and then when tensions get high. Oh, and nobody knows what they're doing. They'll hire you, so long as you work cheap and deal with what they put in front of you. Don't expect full pay for your worth unless you just answer phones. The hourly pay to work done ratio doesn't get much better than that position. I saved the best thing for last - if you want to steal social security numbers and personal data, this is the place to go! I accessed completely unsecured information for all employees of the branch, current and former, within a few months of working there. All the information you could need to steal someone's whole life in one convenient area. If you can deal with the management's mob mentality and the constantly shifting staff, not to mention blatant disregard for private information and boundaries, you can enjoy some ok full-time benefits and some opportunity to raise the ranks quickly (don't expect the pay to get much better, regardless of the amount of responsibilities you have. They'll repay you with opportunity, apparently).

I wouldn't recommend this position for anyone unless you're in desperate need of the money.  Was not fully trained during training, sent out with broken equipment everyday, 3 of the vans when I worked there had no working A/C in the middle of heat waves this summer, I was in a functional van for the first month of my employment then they switched me out into a van that blew straight hot air. basically they'd stuff the people they "didn't like" or that were new in the hotbox instead of just fixing the issue with a mechanic. I've never worked for a company that also ridicules they're employee's for doing the job correctly, not being fast enough (even though your new and using broken  equipment. getting yelled at by some idiots at the top of their lungs for being $100 bucks under the daily goal of about $1200 The task of the job was easy but all of the extra stresses made this job completely miserable, the management  was poor. Coworkers were nice and open to discuss the things that made the job harder

Only job where you can get fired the same day you find out you’re being fired yet they will call it resignation  on behalf of employee. The job starts off saying you make commission and you actually don’t make commission unless you know what the products are. The company hires lazy workers who kill lawns and leave the customer with thousands to pay. They have single handedly mentioned that they just pacify their customers in hopes they keep them for another service which is another 3 months of bs until the customer sees some form of fungal damage to their property. They tell them a bunch of fancy words in hopes that they just get tired of the Mgrs talking. The entire chain or operations is janky there is not an HR team which makes it hard for new hires. The company is super extra in regards to micro management .

Retrieving messages from night before, entering and posting payments and production for services done the day before. Helping clients with problems and solutions to take care of them.Running daily reports and statements. Sending out service agreements for clients. What I learned most about working there is most people are willing to work with you, if you are willing to work with them.But never ever become personal friends with people you work with, because you never know who will stab you in the back. Most enjoyable part of my job were  the clients I dealt with and the technicians I worked with everyday. Hardest part of my job was when I had to leave.

In a job characterized by poor quality, workers often find themselves grappling with low pay and excessive demands, a situation made all the more grueling by sweltering weather conditions. Employees are subjected to long hours of strenuous labor with inadequate compensation, leaving them physically exhausted and financially strained. The oppressive heat amplifies the discomfort, as they toil in stifling environments that lack proper ventilation or cooling, exacerbating their fatigue and diminishing their productivity. This relentless cycle of overwork and underpayment in such harsh conditions erodes morale and underscores a troubling disregard for the well-being of the workforce.

Working here is great for a summer job, however anything more than a few months and you are wasting your time. Advancement and pay increases  do not exist here despite being told that you will receive a raise every 90 days. The management is also quick to gaslight individuals when these issues are brought up. The man in charge confronts people when they update their indeed profiles which I found to be very odd and not very professional. Turnover rate is high and management takes no responsibility for production woes even though they make the schedules and rarely give you extra stops when you call for more at the end of the day. Overall would not recommend. 

Pre-trip inspection of vehicle, review route log and customer call logs, service many customer locations and maintain good relations.
      
      Learned a great deal about Lawn care and Pesticide application.

      Management and Supervisors were easygoing and fair but stern.

      Coworkers were helpful and friendly, always willing to help.
   
      Hardest part of the Job was working outside in the heat on some days, walking and being on your feet most of the day.

      Always a full work week with potential for overtime frequently.

Been doing this type of work for years and this company by far caused me the most stress! Production goal I feel like isn’t realistic by any means, the expectations from the company are set to high based on the fact of how many different things you have to do to each lawn! On top of that you spot treat every lawn which takes a lot of time looking for every single weed, management is awful, just make you feel like you aren’t wanted and they could care less whether you are there or not, wouldn’t recommend working here to anybody and I’ve worked for multiple lawn companies in my life, this by far was my worst experience.

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