A great start - Licensed Optician America's Best Employee Review

3.0
May 31, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has amazing benefits and gives you lots of PTO up front, more so than I've ever seen at a company before. There Is a little bit of a sales commission as well and especially as a licensed optician, it's a fairly easy place to work. The prices are fair, you get a solid discount on your optical needs, and it's overall a great place to start for anyone looking for a job in optical.

Cons

The company has this very apparent ceiling that you tend to hit rather quickly. Even if you do go up to management, the pay incentive is miniscule unless you become the GM. The pay for any position in general is substantially lower than any other optical you can find specifically when reffering to licensed opticians. There isn't alot of need to grow beyond a sales associate because your incentive caps out really fast. Furthermore, the longer you work there, the more you're expected to do and this reaches a point of being in a manager position without receiving manager pay. Of course all of these things depend on your district and store managers but even still, the turnover rate is rather high because of the amount of work expected of people with little training and the unrefined systems of operation

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Cons

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Pros

Decent team, regional management did their best

Cons

Abusive patients, extremely low pay. The company's "two for one and a free eye exam" deal is deceptive being that it does not include any lens options other than the bare minimum, and it limits you to a certain section of (very ugly and cheaply made) frames. Patients, upon realizing that this deal was misleading, would often take it out on the staff.

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