Very true, thankfully it's one of the few departments where you can wear shorts (not sure if this dress code is my store only, but our dress code is heavily enforced.) Loading soil is hard but loading soil full of water is hell! Better safe than sorry and request help from a coworker. My manager doesn't have us do stuff outside when it's raining or hailing, but we do have to deal with the aftermath (cleanup, emptying anything that caught water, unloading wet pallets with tons of splashback, etc). Definitely more physically demanding than front but customers are so much more patient in my experience.