In retail optical, do they all blur optician and optometry tech roles?
I’ve been working for a half of a year now at LensCrafters as a new licensed optician and dislike how they’re blurring both optician and optometry tech roles. The optometry office inside LensCrafters is making me the first backup whenever their staff cannot make it like yesterday. I was suddenly called in to do more hours to help with pretesting when I’m supposed to work part time as an optician.
Not only that, I’m always treated like crap whenever I work with the main doc and her husband (not a doc or optician). They would both text me whenever I’m off or keep interrupting me while I’m on lunch. Yesterday the main doc was giving me attitude after I was going to hand off the patient to her when she was doing nothing except talking to her husband.
Also at Lenscrafters, they never train you so all you get are criticism like you could’ve done better and etc. I hoped that I’ll like it more, but whenever I have to work as a tech, I’ve never received any gratitude or appreciation.
I might as rather learn how to grind lenses in the lab, but I was never trained how to do that.
Also I had asked my optician coworkers and they said that there’s really not much to have them stop putting you as an optometry tech unless if you’re in management or team lead position.