Stressful and not worth it. - Anonymous employee Bard Optical Employee Review

2.0
26 Feb 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome vision benefits Coworkers are great Potlucks Amount of knowledge you learn about the optical world is great

Cons

Over worked due to manager keeping a skeleton crew. Very stressful in meeting sudden deadlines. Management isn't afraid to throw you under the bus to save themselves. Horrible communication. You're expected to read minds and have something done weeks before it's ever brought up. No thought to workers safety either due to weather or sickness (required to come in no matter what, better be dying if you miss work). Blackout periods for vacation time are pointless There is so much overturn in staff, there's almost no point in even learning names. You're either here for years or weeks.

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Pros

The job itself is rewarding. I love what I do to help people. Potlucks, a few good coworkers that are friendly. Flexibility with appts and needing to take care of kids. Incentives are ok but could be better.

Cons

Terrible employees remain even with many call offs and lack of direction as a lead sales person all bc they once had good numbers. Office drama that is not resolved. Incompetent upper management. Upper management that laughs at you and gives you snarky remarks. Too much demand from the opticians to do everything. Cleaning, looking up insurance, cold calling, checking emails, tagging frames, etc

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