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Judy
PM me and I will be more than happy to talk! There are reasons why I use a pseudonym. And you are right. It is unfair to put all opticians into a box, as many are highly qualified. Out of the 35 VA opticians that I support, 20 are excellent. It’s the balance that drive me batty. This is not an attack. It is more of a reality check. I bring this up b/c of the talks about deregulation that was posted earlier.
I look forward to touching base with you.
.....................that will be interesting to follow.
Will you be able to mobilize the 1900 members and give your side their full support ?
Here is the link to the full text:
https://vaopticians.org/wp-content/u...hmond.com_.pdf
If the state of Virginia is foolish enough to remove the Opticianry license, you can be a wrench in the works. Refuse to train or help any unlicensed employee learn the ropes; or better yet, teach them the wrong way to do things. Hide your skills and knowledge from them. Deregulation will depend upon optical managers training all new employees off the street. Managers, You will be the new Opticianry program (with no pay increase)! So, step down from management positions if at all possible. Throw away your ANSI sheets. What's ANSI, I don't know? I just receive eyeglass orders from the Mexican labs and hand them directly to the customer. There is no problem solving. If you can't see, we'll just reorder. No harm, no foul. We won't actually alter any parameters based upon our years of training, we will just reorder. See you in another few weeks Mrs. Smith. Oh no, the lensometer is broken. Oh well, I stopped using it anyway. Now that we are deregulated, there is no need to check jobs. No need to read prescriptions either. If you type it in wrong, it can just be remade. Hand out any old contact lens to anyone who demands them. This could be a big boost for business at Halloween. Never mind the micro-cysts! We don't need regulated professionals selling medical devices like contacts and eyeglasses when a part time fry cook can do it! Put the fry cook on the phone with the doctors office and let them interpret the prescription together. Open the HIPPA files to any stoner off the street! Yeah baby, it's time to deregulate! Think it can't get worse? Think again.
Yes, lets all lower our standards to meritocracy levels. That will show them...That will show them that B&M locations aren't any better than on-line. :rolleyes: Please don't lower your standards. It only will elevate places like America's Worse (Best) and onliners perceived value.
Unfortunately, deregulation is in a frenzy across the country. Judy, please let me know if there's anything I can contribute to helping you maintain licensure in your great state.
At one time in the mid 1930s, Regulation was in a frenzy.
Times change
Hate to break it to you, but what you are describing is exactly what I experience on a daily basis in an non-licensed state, it is pathetic. If you are advocating this course of action, you are shooting your self in the foot. It is precisely what they want. The big companies do not want educated people, hell they don't even want people making decisions. Give them a flow chart and follow the rules, no brains need. Then they can pay them minimum wage.
In many countries, most or all professions are regulated by the governments country wide. Learning and passing tests in different levels is an obligation, to receive countywide or even internationally accepted professional certificates.
This system helps to keep the standard of quality delivered to the end user at a maximum.
However this affects only the quality of vision, which are the lenses, their materials and correctness of lens powers and systems.
Spectacle frames however can be made by anyone and anybody in any material you want, and at any pricing you can get away with.
The free for all frames quality, started with the “commercial branding” of frame lines by personality names and not the manufacturers make.
So within these brands you can actually get a highly priced frame, that was made with inferior quality or older systems, like the old rivet type hinges, but a fancy “brand name” to it.
So it has become a free for all world in the optical trade, and the forces for deregulation have become more powerful by trying to go through government levels.
We are about to go at it with CVS soon. They want to deregulate our Opticians license in Rhode Island.
Posted previously.
One of the many deep pockets pushing this:
https://news.kochind.com/news/2017/k...ng-regulations