Star Nursery

The first thing you should know is that jobs at Star Nursery involve A LOT of manual labor. Bending, pulling, lifting, pushing, and carrying most days depending on your position.  You're also exposed to extreme temperatures and the weather. All in all it's an ok job, I find it fun but it's not for everyone.

I've never been asked to come in on my days off (store is open 7 days a week) and if theres little to do you can stay or go home early. 

My coworkers are great, I have no complaints about any of them. I'm not super fond of one of the management guys and I dislike the owner but other then that I like working here.


Management is different depending on what store your at. My manager is great, I don't know any of the other store managers in my area though.


There's a couple different jobs you can have: 

Yard Worker: Responsible for watering plants, unloading trucks, stocking plants, organizing plants, cleaning yard, answering customer questions  and pruning plants.

Order Puller: Responsible for pulling contractor orders, staging orders, loading and unloading delivery trucks, watering plants for orders and pulling store to store transfers. You also help the Yard Workers if you have time. 

Carryout: Responsible for helping customers load their purchased plants into cars, cleaning 2-3 areas, refilling diesel heaters in winter, taking out trash and organizing front end with cashiers.

Delivery Driver, Non-CDL: Responsible for morning truck safety checklist, truck mileage sheets, loading delivery truck, securing tarp over truck bed, driving to delivery locations and unloading truck with or without assistance. You also help Order Pickers and/or Yard Workers if there's no deliveries.


The Delivery Drivers get paid the most and the Yard Workers and Order Pullers get paid the same. I don't know about Carryout or Cashiers but I know it's lower then Yard Workers.




I have worked here years at first bad pay but stick around long enough it gets good. My typical day is seeing customers are taken care of and people are working not just standing around. I learned things about landscaping and irrigation etc. To move up in the company is basically just a popularity contest not on work ethic .I love my managers (I've worked with many)  but different ones do not work and get away with it also they like to keep labor down which i understand that, only at my store you Will be told I'm going to promote you to this or that and it never happens you feel like a horse following a carrot. Your given just a enough incentive to stay on and keep working hard but you never get the carrot. And I'm not the only one that happens to. Co-workers are great but every once in awhile they hire people you can't stand because they do not work, but that happens everywhere. Hardest part would be customers, I swear sometimes you wonder how certain people can be so rude and demanding. If your a girl expect to be hit on a lot, 80% of customers are contractors. The best part would be the insurance it is SO good! Be warned this IS  a seasonal job in spring you worked like crazy I work open to close often, while winter after Christmas there is not a customer in sight. Also no matter what position you get you are in the summer heat and winter cold, wind, rain whatever it is you have to deal with it -your outside. And last but not least the computers will not work OFTEN, and you at times (i say about once twice a year) will have to run around getting prices and figuring out tax while making hand written receipts if every computer decides not to work.

Good starting place to learn about plants and how to landscape without actually doing the landscaping. Worked for Star for years throughout high school and college as a carryout, Head carryout, inside sales, green sales truck driver, and rock truck driver. I was also able to gain knowledge of outside sales and had opportunities to work in the back with the yard crew and other random tasks as they came from what needed to be done. Among those tasks was processing orders for receiving product from vendors to repairing the swamp coolers on the roof. Over the years people would come and go. The company itself is decent and has the customer and employee in interest. Excellent health coverage. Advancement is limited to when there is an opening and is then based off of performance. Business can be slow during summer and winter months based off extreme hot and cold weather.

The people I work with are for the most part are good ,hard working folks. Most still live at home with there perents,  so this is there first job. Outhers are retired like myself and do this for somthing to do, or for extra money if there is such a thing. The company is not for the person whose trying to raise a family, due to the low pay. I was told by management that this is were old CDL drivers go to die. The equipment that is used on a daily basis has a low priority to get fixed. Management eather can't get approval to fix the equipment or they don't want to spend the money. The bottom line is the only thing that matters. Safety not so much.

This place has a Very high employee turnover and short staffing. essentially no training and expect you to handle huge rushes right away on your first week. 

everyone at Starnursery is underpaid and overworked. there is never enough staff to cover shifts. managers struggle to keep people.  and sometimes have to work 15 days straight to cover people's shifts. 


there is no fixing this store until you value your staff and pay living wages. 
even when you get good employees you will lose them eventually, 
 
The owner only cares about profit. but a company will eventually make more when investing in its people. 
take care of them so they will take care of the customers. and take pride in the company. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working in the sunshine and helping folks.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Corporations have no humanity in them to be kind.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They treat you like your capable of doing the work of 2 ppl. Clicks of ppl. can be mean if you don't  fit in,not to mention this younger generation spends too much time  on there phones while working.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Water plants morning and evening. Projects in between  watering. Sweep up at end of day. This is a yard position,doesn't  apply to other positions.

During my time there, I was often required to stay extra, often for two to three hours after closing. I was given no formal training of any kind on their heavy equipment, and was expected to simply know how to use it. I was told I would be sat down to talk about a pay raise after 60 days, but that never happened. I was treated fairly badly by management, and I had to coordinate with my fellow Yardmen in order to be able to take a lunch break. Contractors would often yell at me for not going fast enough with their orders when I was not the only Yardman retrieving product for contractors. I was not told anything about possible insurance benefits of any kind.

Get to work at 5am then analyze what trucks to load to go to the same side of town. Load trucks up with how many deliveries to that side of town. Return to the store and sweep out truck and reload again for the next round. The hardest part of the job is probably working in the sun in 120 degree temps in the summer. The worst part is how inconsistent the business is with customers. Every year seems to be getting slower. Customers don't want to plant in the summer because it's too hot then the winter is too cold. One of the better parts I guess is the physical part. It keeps me in somewhat shape. One of my biggest pet peeves is they don't take care of maintenance. Driving in 120 temps without a/c.

The managers of the Bullhead City Star Nursery location had poor management skills, lots of gossip and slander, never organized, always on their cell phones, inappropriate talk of other coworkers. 
The supervisor was caught in many lies when asked about why things weren't getting done. The manager always used slander when gossiping about his employees. Poor communication skills. Slavedriver to their only cashier. She would open and close,  working 12 hour days, 9 days in a row given only 1 day off then another 9 days working 10 to 12 hour shifts.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Driving to a different state 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
That they will treat you like you are a high school student no matter what your age is.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Supervisors abuse their position of power and take things personally if you don’t over excel at your job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in early, jump on a fork lift without fork lift certification, grab all trees and plants as quickly as possible for contract customers and quickly place them on your vehicle. And rush to each job site. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to water plants to make hours.

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