If you want to sacrifice your entire summer and work for peanuts, this place is for you - Anonymous employee Bachman's Employee Review

2.0
7 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful, high-quality products, really great people.

Cons

If you're full time, you're pretty much expected to be there from 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. six or seven days a week from April 1-November 1 -- for a whopping $15-$17/hour, so-so benefits, and no perks. My W-2 was an eye-opener. It shows a poverty wage. You're "rewarded" for sacrificing your entire spring, summer and fall by being furloughed for the winter. Meanwhile, the few in the C-suite live like royalty and treat employees as minions. Oh, wait. There are the (very) occasional low-quality employee lunches and crappy cookies and free admission to the Holiday House at the "holiday party" at Lyndale.

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5.0
5 May 2026
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Pros

This was one of my first jobs as a teenager and I felt it was a good starting point. The other employees were friendly and the work was appropriate for a minimum wage job.

Cons

Not any I can think of.

3.0
1 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The scheduling as a seasonal employee is fairly flexible, I've never had trouble getting the time off so long as I request it prior to the schedule going out. The employee discount is also nice as Bachman's has a great deal of product that makes for great gifts for the gardener in your life, but also has a lovely "gift shop" as well that contains product beyond plant life.

Cons

The vastly different environmental working conditions (extreme heat, cold, rain or shine) is sometimes difficult to plan for, especially if you expect to be working in one area of the store and end up somewhere else. Also the current increase in senior level management's expectations of seasonal employees responsibilities currently comes without pay compensation.

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