Have you ever had a fellow optician act dismissive and treat you like you're kind of crazy when you mention something that they're not familiar with? A few examples of mine:
1. Call up my sister shop and ask for them to send us some primadona nose pads. They're response "lol what! you mean push-in nosepads? You don't have any there?"
2. Was talking to an older licensed optician lady about office PALs. I mentioned that I like to use degressive lenses. She scoffed at me and acted as if I just made that up on the spot.
3. My first day at a job and I told my new manager what he thought about the newfangled polarized/transitional lenses (vantage) that were coming out. He tried to convince me that I was stupid and that it was impossible. He later called the lab and ended up apologizing.
4. Once we had a client that had a higher minus and a bit of prism. I noticed that they were about to be ordered as surface, so I mentioned that we should just order stock and decenter the lenses as needed. I got looked at like I had three heads.
5. I was having my jobs cut at my sister store. I knew the edger they were using, but i couldn't find in the brochures whether or not they had a step bevel function. A lot of our frames were getting splayed out, so I called and asked our lab guy. Again, dude is treating me like I'm totally insane and that I don't know what I'm talking about.
6. Asked to read a patient's old RX so that I could see what had changed. My coworker couldn't figure out why I wasn't just filing the new script.
What are some of your stories? Also, if you are person who does this: STOP!
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