Hiring for optical is unbelievable...people think we don't do anything but sit around. Or the experience ones don't want to do anything 😂 and don't get me started about cleaning 🙄
Let me give you an often overlooked piece of advice. Nobody wants to be on their feet the whole time for 8 or 10 hours per day. It's borderline abusive, and any employee worthwhile and with self-respect will know you should have a stool for every employee in lab and a desk for every optician on the floor.
my number one tip is to encourage mutual personal developments between the employee and the employer, dont let the new hire do the exact same thing over and over (maybe with the old generation u can) but provide them tasks and ask their opinions regarding the future of the company and their different opinions on the matter of how things are done that way they feel engaged in the business and not set up as hamsters on a wheel.
Sorry but an optician doesn't work for minimum wage. Even a great frame stylist wouldn't work for minimum wage. No, you can't make more money working at a supermarket than you can being employed as an optician at a big-box or independent ODs office. Wages aren't staggering but most certainly not minimum wage either.
@@LaramyKOptical sorry. I work as a dispenser. I am on 50p more than minimum wage BUT my colleagues are on min wage who are also dispensers/frame stylists. And yes I know for a fact you can get higher pay at a grocery store. I am UK based.
Hello Laramy, I just have a new job, I have 25 years experience, yes I'm a older person and it is a bit difficult to begin to adapt to the new staff, because I have more experience in optics than they do, but I have a problem, they are hardly going to get used to my ideas, I hope they accept me and I stay to work in this place, as I said my situation is a bit difficult...thank you...
As we say, "preaching to the choir" yeah, this getting old thing isn't all it is cracked up to be. I'm not in the trenches anymore but the mind of a 61 year old doesn't work in the same way as those in their 20's, 30's etc... so I have had to learn some new ways of writing and I did have to embrace video work, video editing, video production to remain relevant.
Hiring for optical is unbelievable...people think we don't do anything but sit around. Or the experience ones don't want to do anything 😂 and don't get me started about cleaning 🙄
I am learning immensely from your youtube channel.
Let me give you an often overlooked piece of advice. Nobody wants to be on their feet the whole time for 8 or 10 hours per day. It's borderline abusive, and any employee worthwhile and with self-respect will know you should have a stool for every employee in lab and a desk for every optician on the floor.
Pretty much all of the optical stores in my city have chairs for the Opticians.... Yet the chain store that I work at.... All standing up.
my number one tip is to encourage mutual personal developments between the employee and the employer, dont let the new hire do the exact same thing over and over (maybe with the old generation u can) but provide them tasks and ask their opinions regarding the future of the company and their different opinions on the matter of how things are done that way they feel engaged in the business and not set up as hamsters on a wheel.
Hiring is strange. They want alot from employees but pay them minimum wage. You can get paid more by working at a supermarket.
Sorry but an optician doesn't work for minimum wage. Even a great frame stylist wouldn't work for minimum wage. No, you can't make more money working at a supermarket than you can being employed as an optician at a big-box or independent ODs office. Wages aren't staggering but most certainly not minimum wage either.
@@LaramyKOptical sorry. I work as a dispenser. I am on 50p more than minimum wage BUT my colleagues are on min wage who are also dispensers/frame stylists. And yes I know for a fact you can get higher pay at a grocery store.
I am UK based.
@@chrisknightstravel I was speaking about opticians in the US where we are based and do business not in the UK. John
Hello Laramy, I just have a new job, I have 25 years experience, yes I'm a older person and it is a bit difficult to begin to adapt to the new staff, because I have more experience in optics than they do, but I have a problem, they are hardly going to get used to my ideas, I hope they accept me and I stay to work in this place, as I said my situation is a bit difficult...thank you...
As we say, "preaching to the choir" yeah, this getting old thing isn't all it is cracked up to be. I'm not in the trenches anymore but the mind of a 61 year old doesn't work in the same way as those in their 20's, 30's etc... so I have had to learn some new ways of writing and I did have to embrace video work, video editing, video production to remain relevant.
number 4 use your best talker ? lol r u encouraging people to setup a spy at a workplace??