OptiBoard Discussion Forums http://www.optiboard.com/forums/ OptiBoard is the Premier Online Community for Eyecare Professionals. en Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:51:08 GMT vBulletin 30 http://www.optiboard.com/forums/images/misc/rss.png OptiBoard Discussion Forums http://www.optiboard.com/forums/ Did anyone hear about the hostage situation at the Discovery channel? http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41941-Did-anyone-hear-about-the-hostage-situation-at-the-Discovery-channel?goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:13:06 GMT Check out this dude's Demands that he had posted before he went nuts and got himself shot by the police. (he really, really doesn't like babies by the way)


http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...netprotest.com ]]> Just Conversation opticianbart http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41941-Did-anyone-hear-about-the-hostage-situation-at-the-Discovery-channel science fiction. http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41940-science-fiction.?goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:58:18 GMT So what are some of your favorite science fiction shows or movie? Some of my favorites are Babylon 5 and Fire Fly.I have been on a B5 kick as of late since they are streaming it on netflix. The British have some great Sci-fi as well not just DR. Who.There is Torchwood and my wife has gotten... So what are some of your favorite science fiction shows or movie?

Some of my favorites are Babylon 5 and Fire Fly.I have been on a B5 kick as of late since they are streaming it on netflix.

The British have some great Sci-fi as well not just DR. Who.There is Torchwood and my wife has gotten me into Life on Mars. That show is worth watching for the music alone!


So what is your favorite science fiction movie TV show or even book? ]]> Just Conversation Mizikal http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41940-science-fiction. Full Time Optometrist Postion Available near Savannah, GA http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41938-Full-Time-Optometrist-Postion-Available-near-Savannah-GA?goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:54:02 GMT Looking for a Full Time OD for busy private practice near Savannah, GA. Perfect oportunity for any OD interested in being an independant practioner within an established optical. Oportunity to absorb existing clientel, make your own schedule and take control of your own financial future. Please... Looking for a Full Time OD for busy private practice near Savannah, GA. Perfect oportunity for any OD interested in being an independant practioner within an established optical. Oportunity to absorb existing clientel, make your own schedule and take control of your own financial future. Please respond by e-mail bda_ldo@yahoo.com or send resume to P.O. Box 552 Pooler, GA 31322 ]]> The Job Board bda_ldo http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41938-Full-Time-Optometrist-Postion-Available-near-Savannah-GA New Jersey Opticians http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41937-New-Jersey-Opticians?goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:20:32 GMT *Optical Manager Needed North Jersey* *Opticians - FT/PT - New Jersey.* Sears has been a brand name since the 90s – the 1890s that is! The secret ingredients of success at Sears Optical are associates who are energetic and competitive with great communication skills! Sears Optical has a... Optical Manager Needed North Jersey

Opticians - FT/PT - New Jersey.


Sears has been a brand name since the 90s – the 1890s that is! The secret ingredients of success at Sears Optical are associates who are energetic and competitive with great communication skills! Sears Optical has a deep understanding of customers’ needs. With 975 Sears Optical locations across North America, our team members are in major cities across North America!

Summary of Essential Functions:
The basic function of the Optical Associate, Optician is to attract and retain customers by delivering exceptional customer service, fosters customer retention, and promotes outstanding associate/doctor satisfaction.

The essential functions, expected outcomes and results of this position include the following:
Drive profitable store sales by fostering a retail selling culture by practicing through role-playing, and using effective retail sales skills
Develops professional business relationships with other Associates and Doctor
Fills ophthalmic eyeglass prescriptions and fits and adapts lenses and frames, to include but not limited to the following:
ü Utilizing optical prescription, evaluates prescription in conjunction with customer's visual requirements
ü Recommends specific lenses, lens coatings and frames to suit customer needs;
ü Assists customers in the selection of frames and coordinates frames with optical measurements and prescription;
ü Conducts measurements of bridge and eyesize, temple length, vertex distance, pupilary distance and optical centers using appropriate tools
Ensures high quality through accurate measurements, correct pricing, and realistic delivery time quotes
Maximize Managed Vision Care relationships and sales opportunities as measured by:
ü Effective plan administration and local service
ü Improvements in average transaction
ü Locally initiated plans
Assist with the timely implementation of approved Marketing programs by the execution of marketing programs and initiatives
Ensure positive and productive host relationships through Host participation, support, and satisfaction
Other duties as assigned by Optical Manager and other Associates

Position requirements include:
1. Ability to sell through use of sales skills and accountability for sales results
2. Experience and results with a retail or customer service establishment
3. Ability to provide enthusiastic and concise communication to meet/exceed customer expectations as well as foster positive and results-oriented associate, doctor and host relationships
4. Success in store merchandising and attention to detail
5. State licensure or certification by a nationally-recognized opticianary association as an optician
6. Minimum of 3-5 years experience in related field
7. Experience with personal computers preferred

The incumbent or successful candidate must meet the position requirements above in order to perform the essential functions of this position and achieve the outcomes/results indicated in this position description. The Company will make every effort to make reasonable accommodations upon request to enable qualified individuals with known disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job.

Fax information to 732-602-6211 or respond here. ]]> The Job Board kcangelo1 http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41937-New-Jersey-Opticians Oldest optical school http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41936-Oldest-optical-school?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:16:17 GMT What is the oldest continuously running two year opticianry program in the US? What is the oldest continuously running two year opticianry program in the US? ]]> General Optics and Eyecare Discussion Forum rbaker http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41936-Oldest-optical-school seriously? http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41935-seriously?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:58:56 GMT I had 5 of my coworkers try on my glasses and they can't see out of them, and then I tried on her glasses and I could see great. I'm coming back in and I want my money back.

(Not to mention this someone who ordered their glasses in Feb. and didn't come in to pick them up till we sent them a letter, and who refused to sit down for us to adjust the glasses and give him his first time glasses/progressive tutorial.)

*Sigh* Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning. ]]> Just Conversation opticianbart http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41935-seriously Humor- Cops and Teachers-Just had to share http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41934-Humor-Cops-and-Teachers-Just-had-to-share?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:38:36 GMT Who's funnier - Teachers or Cops?


Teachers:

These are actual comments made on student report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system.

All teachers were reprimanded but, some of these are really funny!

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.

2. I would not allow this student to breed.

3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.

4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.

6. The student has a 'full six-pack' but lacks the plastic thingies to hold it all together.

7. This child has been working with glue too much.

8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.

9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.

10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.

11. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

Cops:

These 16 Police Comments were taken off actual police car videos around the country.

Thank goodness, in spite of the perils of the job, they still have a sense of humor!

16. 'You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through.'

15. 'Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while.'

14. 'If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document.'

13. 'If you run, you'll only go to jail tired.'

12. 'Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you'

11. 'You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?'

10. 'Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?'

9. 'Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket.'

8. 'The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not... Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?'

7. 'Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey crap.'

6. 'Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.'

5. 'In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC.'

4. 'How big were those 'two beers' you say you had?'

3. 'No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can.'

2. 'I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post bail.'

AND THE WINNER IS....

1. 'You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here. ]]> Just Conversation WFruit http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41934-Humor-Cops-and-Teachers-Just-had-to-share My Vision Express FREE TRIAL PM/EMR Software http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41933-My-Vision-Express-FREE-TRIAL-PM-EMR-Software?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:30 GMT Attachment 7187
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]]> Optical Marketplace myvisionexpress http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41933-My-Vision-Express-FREE-TRIAL-PM-EMR-Software 1.60 Comfort Backorder http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41932-1.60-Comfort-Backorder?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:34:59 GMT We have had problems lately with the 1.60 Comfort being backordered due to our Essilor pulling all the old stock and putting in the "new and improved!" comfort II. I know it's not the greatest lens, nor the worst, but we have a lot of patients who want/need to stay in the same lens design or at least same price tier. I was wondering if price/lens wise anyone can offer a good replacement for the next few weeks.

Thanks! ]]> General Optics and Eyecare Discussion Forum banjOJO http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41932-1.60-Comfort-Backorder Adjusting thick side templed frames http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41928-Adjusting-thick-side-templed-frames?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:14:24 GMT Pt picks up glasses, thick zyle sided Harley D frame-- "Am I supposed to see these" (gesturing towards the temples). (What I want to say) "Only if you have peripheral vision".

Okay, but that's not the question/problem. How do you all tackle thick sided zyle temples when you need to correct angles, hinge is too thick to bend down or up. Do you grab a hold of the endpiece barrell and bend that? I do sometimes but I worry that it's too much stress and may make it loose in the zyle front. Tips? Anyone? Bueller?

Paula ]]> General Optics and Eyecare Discussion Forum kaypaula http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41928-Adjusting-thick-side-templed-frames <![CDATA[GAgal rings the "I am older today bell!"!!]]> http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41927-GAgal-rings-the-quot-I-am-older-today-bell!-quot-!!?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:23:00 GMT Well, well, well.........look who is getting all *OLD* on us! Happy Birthday! Celebrate like you mean it! :cheers::cheers::cheers: Well, well, well.........look who is getting all OLD on us!

Happy Birthday!

Celebrate like you mean it!

:cheers::cheers::cheers: ]]> Just Conversation Fezz http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41927-GAgal-rings-the-quot-I-am-older-today-bell!-quot-!! Problems with Sola HDv, etc etc http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41926-Problems-with-Sola-HDv-etc-etc?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:43:53 GMT At the retail dispensary that I work, we tend to sell progressive lenses in this order, from base-best: SolaVIP (only glass prog we offer, discontinued SolaXL) SolaMax Instinctive Image (for our sunglasses, mainly) SolaOne Varilux designs (by request, only do 3 pairs or so a year) At the retail dispensary that I work, we tend to sell progressive lenses in this order, from base-best:


SolaVIP (only glass prog we offer, discontinued SolaXL)
SolaMax
Instinctive
Image (for our sunglasses, mainly)
SolaOne
Varilux designs (by request, only do 3 pairs or so a year)

((Note: we're a retail, so this is, sadly, our only selection. Don't judge me :shiner: )) :)

SolaMax is, by what seems like an order of magnitude, our most common selling lens, especially in Transistions this time of the year. Recently, there has been a big push from corporate to sell the new(ish) SolaHDv progressive lenses, as they are both supposedly hugely better, and hugely more profitable. We've had Zeiss reps down for presentations on freeform progressives, the benefits of Teflon (I prefer Crizal), etc etc. When we order the lenses, we have to supply the OC along with the seg measurement.

We've been selling HDv lenses for about a year now, but only at a rate of 10-20 pairs a month. I ran a remake report today and it shows that almost 35% of our HDv lenses sold are returned, half for doctor rechecks/remakes, and half for either another lens or an outright refund. We've spoken with patients who didn't return the lenses, and just about all of them seem really satisfied; the patients who return the HDvs, however, are some of the most dissatisfied progressive wearers that I've seen.

There is no trend in the five Opticians for the remakes, so I don't know if it's something we're all doing collectively, or if there's something wrong elsewhere. We all tend to use the same rule of "fit to their existing seg, or the center/bottom center of their pupil," which tend to work out to be the same either way. Some opticians fit closer to the bottom edge, some opticians (me) tend to at or closer to the center.

I would say half of our progressive orders are for patients 55+, with the other half being scattered through the lower ages (even some children!). About 65-70% of the remakes/refunds are for patients under 45 years of age

Any clues, or am I overlooking something very obvious? ]]> Progressive Lens Discussion Forum Geirskogul http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41926-Problems-with-Sola-HDv-etc-etc <![CDATA[Temperature & latitude change so great will crack polarized polycarb lenses! Help??]]> http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41925-Temperature-amp-latitude-change-so-great-will-crack-polarized-polycarb-lenses!-Help?goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:11:25 GMT Hi everyone, Please help me to understand this, thanks. I just dispensed a beutiful Ic! Berlin (base curve 8) polarized polycarb sunglasses to my patient in a perfect conditions. Then one week later, he came back and show me there is a long crack on his polarized polycarb lenses. He told me... Hi everyone,
Please help me to understand this, thanks.

I just dispensed a beutiful Ic! Berlin (base curve 8) polarized polycarb sunglasses to my patient in a perfect conditions. Then one week later, he came back and show me there is a long crack on his polarized polycarb lenses. He told me that his polarized polycarb lenses just crack on his face when he biked down from the Grand Canyon trail in Arizona-88 degree high on the mountain down to 3 degree below the ground level.

He sweared up & down that he never drop them, the polarized polycarb lenses JUST CRACK BY THEMSELF on his face. So I have to re-do the lenses for him.

My questions are:
1. Are the polarized polycarb crack when temperature & latitude change so great?
2. What kind of material will be better for trail bikers beside Polarized Polycarb?
3. I did check with the lab, the polarized trivex is no available.
4. What should I do?

Thanks for your help. :angry:... ]]> Progressive Lens Discussion Forum LAGUNAEYEDESIGNER http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41925-Temperature-amp-latitude-change-so-great-will-crack-polarized-polycarb-lenses!-Help <![CDATA[FREE Consumer Education Resource: "Drivewear Stories from the Road" brochure]]> http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41924-FREE-Consumer-Education-Resource-quot-Drivewear-Stories-from-the-Road-quot-brochure?goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:55:27 GMT Drivewear Stories from the Road: a FREE waiting room brochure from Younger Optics Image: http://www.youngeroptics.com/Optiboard/News_Releases/Drivewear_Road_Map_graphic.png Thousands of patients have written to Younger Optics to tell us how much they love their Drivewear® lenses. This... Drivewear Stories from the Road:
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Thousands of patients have written to Younger Optics to tell us how much they love their Drivewear® lenses. This brochure shares the testimonials of many patients across the nation who own and love these unique sunwear lenses. It also explains to patients how these lenses use proprietary Drivewear Transitions® SolFX™ photochromic technology to help them see better while driving in daylight.

Drivewear lenses are the ONLY polarized photochromic lenses to darken behind the windshield of a car. Once patients read this brochure, they are excited to give Drivewear lenses a try!

To request a pack of these brochures, please email marketing@youngeroptics.com with the NAME and ADDRESS of your practice or store, as well as the QUANTITY you would like to receive. You can request as many 25-packs as you would like. Completely FREE!

Size: 4 " wide by 8.75" tall
Each pack contains 25 brochures. ]]> Younger Optics – The Optical Lens Innovators YO Aimee http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41924-FREE-Consumer-Education-Resource-quot-Drivewear-Stories-from-the-Road-quot-brochure Eyeglasses in Colonial America http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41922-Eyeglasses-in-Colonial-America?goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:46:18 GMT So I've decided to combine my love of Colonial history with my love for glasses. Anyone know anything about such things? (besides the obvious Ben Franklin bifocal stuff) I'm particularly interested in how the lenses and frames were constructed at that time. ]]> Just Conversation opticianbart http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/41922-Eyeglasses-in-Colonial-America