Comment by miowiamagrapegod on 27/01/2025 at 00:49 UTC

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View submission: Are opticians just glorified salesman's now?

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complete with people doing eye tests who weren't qualified or trained to do so

That didn't happen. Either you have been lied to or you have misinterpreted something somewhere.

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Comment by Ybuzz at 27/01/2025 at 11:37 UTC

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Why would you think it didn't happen? They gave people who were only supposed to be working the shop floor until they were qualified instructions to do thing like the 'read the line' eye tests, even though they weren't supposed to yet, because they were short staffed. My friend was working there at the time and swiftly found a job elsewhere because that made them uncomfortable, as did other staff.

Unethical managers exist, I'm afraid. I don't think it's the same manager for that shop anymore, but it's made me wary of the fact those kind of chains have non-expert managers in the same way as a Starbucks or a McDonald's, whereas the independent ones are based on the reputation of the person who's name is on the sign, and that's usually the person starting it, running it, and aware that they need to be doing the bits only they are qualified to do.