Break in period for Transitions?

**Happylady** · 03-10-2007, 01:13 PM

I always thought that Transitions required no break-in period. I hear another optician I work with tell people that they do have one and they will darkern more as they are exposed to the sun more? Is this correct?

**Jedi** · 03-10-2007, 03:56 PM

Happy,
You are correct, no break-in required.

**Jim Schafer** · 03-11-2007, 10:58 AM

Hi Happylady,
As Jedi confirmed for you, Transitions lenses never have and never will need a break in period.
regards,
Jim

**Happylady** · 03-11-2007, 04:47 PM

Thank you for your reply. So how does one go about correcting one's boss when she is mistaken?

**rbaker** · 03-12-2007, 12:56 AM

You don't.

**Jim Schafer** · 03-12-2007, 08:34 AM

Hi Happylady,
We have a new ABO on Photochromics.
It is called
Photochromics, A History, The Technology and The Market.

When the seminar is available in your area maybe you can get your office to attend. There is a section on myth busting where these types of questions (along with the dreaded put 'em in a freezer) are addressed.

BTW...Michael DiSanto will present it at VEE.
best regards,
Jim

**chip anderson** · 03-12-2007, 10:51 AM

Correcting one's boss is only slightly more serious a condition than saying: "Doctor, you're wrong."
I used to own a contact lens lab, everyone there was ignorant on the product prior to hire. I trained them all. It seemed that the group (all young people) seemed to take particular delight when they found that I made an mistake. I usually replied: "Perfect people tend to be crucified."

Chip:cheers:

**specs4you** · 04-02-2007, 01:13 AM

You guys/gals are hilarious. But seriously. I have taken the transitions seminars and blah blah , read all the literature. But.....I actually do have
patients that come in all the time saying their transitions aren't working. I do a great deal before the sale to show the lens, show the desktop ad and make sure never to sell as a sunglass behind the windshield etc.

Oh by the way I get lots of delight when my boss comes up to me to correct me and I stand firm on my education and experience. I may be risking my job but I get sick of him improperly educating the patients and making me seem stupid when really....well need I say it?

The point is.....finally I got one of these steaming mad patients to come into the office when their glasses weren't darkening , right then. (mind you I know that every pair is...because as part of my check in I actually darken the suckers in my machine and note it in their records so I know I did it). So in the patient comes, hilariously with dark glasses on....ummmmm egg all over her face when I took them off of her face and showed her they were dark. I wonder sometimes if these complainers just can't see it from inside?
Are they the same complainers that see weird abborations in a lens that after many redos aren't there? Have had a couple of those.....

Couldn't we write a whole book or many volumes on experiences with patients...?? Ha Ha Ha.....

**Jim Schafer** · 04-02-2007, 07:14 AM

Hi Specs4You,
I am happy to hear that you put what you have learned into practice. Maybe there is a way to get your supervisor into the product trainings. Like Chip said, it is never good to show up the boss. Maybe you can share new product knowledge (no just Transitions, I am sure there are other points of difference) with him/her by asking, have you seen this or what do you think of this...

The concept behind Transitions was not to be a sunlens replacement but a comfort or convenience lens for everyday situations that a clear lens would be worn. The lens is to change from clear to dark and return to clear without the wearer sensing the changes.

The lens will darken to the amount of available energy (outdoor light), sometimes the patient expects the lens to be fully darkened in all situations. I have asked patients who say the lens is not fully dark if they were uncomfortable at the time, they usually say no, they were comfortable, they expected a darker lens. From that point, they usually understand what the lens is meant to do, provide comfort in common daily routine where you do not want to arry two pair and swith on and off.

If the conditions or task at hand warrant it, a good polarized pair of lenses is my first choice.

Thanks for your input,
have great day,
Jim

**Audiyoda** · 04-02-2007, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Happylady

Thank you for your reply. So how does one go about correcting one's boss when she is mistaken?

Accidentally leave a URL shortcut (pointing to this reply within this thread) on her desktop labeled something like "New Optical Revelations!" Just make sure she doesn't see you in her office when you do it - then she'll never know it was you.

**specs4you** · 04-02-2007, 05:44 PM

Dear Jim Shafer;
Thank you and agreed. There is no way to , if this makes others in my situation feel better, educate my office manager or Dr. The office manager
regularly gets a temper tantrum stating she resents me being there. The boss won't talk to her or get involved siting I must be a liar. Well....seems there is so much jealosy that she finally complained so much about the patients noticing my framed certification on the wall and not her 35 hrs of paraoptometric courses.....what a joke...that II took the damned think down and hung it in my bedroom. Nothing but old people with high school mentality incl. the Dr. It is a morale buster just coming to work and putting up with the staff being worse than the general public. I am new to the trade only 8 yrs in but too old to take up career #3. I love being an optician I just wish I could find a Dr that is a businessman........(in my area....don't jump on this post now Dr's.)