I'm remaking them because they aren't correct.
Originally Posted by optical24/7
I'm remaking them because they aren't correct.
He's re-making them because the job's wrong. A sheepskin doesn't make one right.
Chip
Nickel, no offence meant. You said you were the apprentice. It's difficult to think someone that has had to take numerous tests and practical exams would miss this extremely basic question. ( the other optician), for someone to slither though the system of licensed states, twice, Not knowing this is surprising. That's all.
Optical: You know sheepskins can be bought. You can get people who will go in and take tests for you. Most of the ophthalmologist I know are some of the smartest and best trained people there are. But I have known a few that I am supprised ever got out of middle school, much less college, medschool and residency.
A license doesn't make one competent, the lack of same doesn't make one incompetent. In many cases it's just a status symbol.
Shoot one can teach at Harvard Law, and not seem to have a basic grasp of the US Constitution. Some times one can even be on the Supreme Court (US) or even higher office and not seem to have even read it.
Chip
Very simple question. Are they single vision lenses?
This does not surprise me anymore! I work under an "optician" (i use that term loosely in this case, non-license state) who has been in the field for 15 years. A couple weeks ago she had to ask me how to measure an oc height. She had no idea what it was or why you would take that measurement. Anytime there is a mention of prism and she is involved, I cringe and want to bang my head against the wall! I have no idea how people make it so long in any field with little to no desire to learn but they seem to slip through in just about every field.
Oy vey! If we know the Rx, we should be able to tell if a mounted pair of lenses with 16Δ of vertical imbalance, are upside down, from twenty feet away.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. - Richard P. Feynman
Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test before the lesson.
Right? Yet most opticians I deal with struggle to understand how I can tell without a lensometer when .5D of prism is in the wrong direction...
Wesley S. Scott, MBA, MIS, ABOM, NCLE-AC, LDO - SC & GA
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -Albert Einstein
The good ones can even tell you the Rx withing 1/4 including the cylinder axis withing 5 degrees just by looking trough the lens and waving the glasses at a wall with a straight line on it.
Can't do it now but I used to be able to tell you the base curve (first job cutting and polishing same) within 1/4 diopter of a contact lens. Unfortunately diabetes has removed a lot of feeling from my fingertips.
Chip
But in this case you didn't even have to look through the lens. One might be walking by the bench and casually glance at the job, and you would know you were in trouble. And yet, three people, using lensometry, were not sure that they were looking at garbage.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. - Richard P. Feynman
Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test before the lesson.
Should we tell them that the thick edge of the lens indicates the prism direction?
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