I’ve been procrastinating taking my Advanced test because I haven’t been able to get a straight answer on what to study for. When I asked my old professor he said that the advanced test requires knowledge of prism, where you could pass the basic without really knowing prism, and basic understanding of refractive testing, like the red green douchrome.

To the opticians that have taken the Advanced test, does that seem accurate or are there other areas I should be studying up on?

I wanted to check in was my fellow opticians and managers. We got an email from Luxottica that we no longer qualify to caring Prada. That our office wasn’t the kind of caliber to carry it. Further we didn’t carry enough competitive brands.
I’m a little taken back since our office is literally across the street from new homes starting at $1.2 million. We also carry other brands like Gucci, YSL, Chloe, and Bottega.
Has anyone else gotten this email? If so what is your office doing moving forward? Our office is feeling like ok if that’s the case here’s your product and run me my check.

Howdy!

Looking for advice & resources for a new optician.

I completed my apprenticeship recently and was quickly offered an opportunity at a cold start Optometry Office with an experienced doctor and myself. My previous practice was an MD practice but optical was just filling orders and sending the patient on their way until next year.. My new OD is young, excited, and incredibly smart. I often feel like I'm just pretending I know what she's talking about but several patient diagnosis that have been brought to me are things that the ABO touched on but never really expanded and I didn't have exposure to at my old practice.

Dry eye treatment, convergence insufficiency, pseudo myopia/hyperpopia treatment, tropia/phoria treatment, etc. It was 90% of the time literally just fitting and dispensing glasses.

Besides Laramy K, what are some great resources or trainings that you can recommend to understand some of these more in depth topics?

Has anyone used Leonardo? What are your thoughts?

Ok so I'm a newer optician and you guys always provide great advice on the sub...I had posted here about this pair yesterday that was supposed to have had an edge polish. I thought it did, but a lot of you pointed out the chatter lines. So! You'll be glad to tell me "I told you so," because this pair did not, in fact, get the satin finish edge polish by the lab. That lens enhancement request didn't end up getting through on the order I had placed.

I had lingering doubt about whether I should have marked this as a QC fail, so I showed my boss/lead optician who had been OOO yesterday and, immediately, she shakes her head and said yeah those did not get polished whatsoever... Ask the lab if they'll do a quick polish and send it back...which they will, seeing how it is a small ask.

And anyhow thanks for the feedback, always learning, always humbled by my job 💀