Pros
Free glasses every year of tenure
Cons
Work you until youre dead or want to die. Everything expected to do as an”optician” Signage Lab cutdowns Lab order inspections Complete lab jobs out Call and confirm exams Check insurance/find insurance for exams Pretest for exams EPM for exams (everything they got today, and previous.) Keep the store clean Make sales Transmit sales Frame recovery Confirm shipments Dispenses of glasses and contacts Call lens onlys Customer Call backs Call nee Contacts lens sales over the phone (write the card info down on a post it.) Call I.T because Epps wants to refund everything Check emails for speciality things to do Pull files for next day Put files away from present day Collect trash and take to dumpster Call lens onlys for cutdown Call contact trial pts Glasses repairs Answer phones NON STOP Take apart and clean lab machines Contacts lens teach Stay up to date on Leonardo training classes Put frames back no empty spaces while watching for theft. Occasional cycle counts for specific brands Track remakes Say hello to everyone who walks in. 3 years later with my 66 cent raise still coming in with the flu because corporate was coming to tell you everything you’re doing wrong, 11-7 every single day, no room for anything but LensCrafters if you work here. Worked as hard as I can to get written up for being late on Christmas Eve. You close the store alone, you deal with the most ungrateful, snobby customer base there is.