WORST OPTICAL COMPANY I' VE WORKED FOR - Store Manager/Optician National Vision Employee Review

2.0
26 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is on the higher end of the pay scale when compared to other companies I have looked at. Most other companies are $5 or lower per hour. Decent Health Insurance

Cons

There are SO many Cons... 1. Training is horrible: from how the books are formatted to the Management Training Classes in Atlanta ! There is no follow through or support for new managers even though training staff said they would 2. The District Managers do nothing other than push Store Managers HARD to meet ALL sales goals - They exist only to push push push sales,,,thats it !! I was actually written up (PIP) for not meeting all sales goals last Period. (never been written up for anything my whole life) DM management style is to intimidate you into meeting goals. DMs have no optical experience...comet to think of it,,, neither does anyone else ! They allow a new sales assoc. to check in glasses without any optical experience and unable to use a lensometor. Anyone can measure for a prog or bifocal and not have any clue as how to do it. Management is run very poorly !

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