optometric technician

technician

optician

Grene-Vision-Group

Working at Grene Vision Group was, in my opinion, one of the lowest points of my career. After years in eye care, I’ve never seen a workplace where leadership seemed so uninterested in supporting its employees. Instead of focusing on teamwork and patient care, the culture felt built on favoritism, poor communication, and a complete disregard for staff morale.

Feedback was brushed aside, policies seemed to change depending on who you were, and employees who tried to contribute often felt pushed out rather than valued. Training was minimal, expectations were unclear, and the overall tone from management made the workplace feel more hostile than professional.

In my view, the company thrives on division rather than unity. Turnover was constant, stress levels were high, and there was little sense that anyone in charge cared about long-term employee success. What should have been a promising role quickly turned into an exhausting and demoralizing grind.

I left shortly after my probationary period because the environment felt unsustainable. From my perspective, if the company truly wants to grow, it needs to completely rethink its culture, starting with how it treats its people.

A typical day at work for me includes greeting all patients that come into our optical department and making sure everyone gets signed in to be seen by one of our opticians. I also call patients to notify them that their glasses order came in and is ready for pick up. I make sure the opticians have all the supplies they need to do their work, if they are low on something, I place supplies orders for them.  I have learned great people skills and some medical terminology over my past couple years here. The management here is great too, they are always willing to fall wherever help is needed and they are extremely understanding too. The hardest part of the job would be when you have an unhappy patient come in with a problem you have no control over. I like to be able to help resolve situations for people, it helps them out and makes me feel good to be helpful as well. The most enjoyable part of my job is having patients come in that remember me from their last visit. It's a wonderful feeling when you've left a good impression on someone and they come back to the office and remember your name and what you talked about with them during their last visit.

The work atmosphere where I was at was professional for the most part. There is a group of people that work very hard in the best interest of the company. The majority of the doctors are good, hardworking, and caring people. The company tries to promote within when they can. I learned a lot and undoubtedly am leaving a more skilled employee than when I started. Overall, I'm proud to have been an employee here.

A weakness of the company is the office managers. While there are few problem employees here, some of the problems they caused became bigger than they needed to be and were frequently traced back to an office manager that did next to nothing to stop the employee.

Try to find ways to stem turnover and promote employee self-reliance. Be open to finding new ways to move the company forward, even it means making changes that might make some people uncomfortable in the short-term.

I’m a long-standing employee here. In my last several years I have dealt with inconsistentcy in the rules more often than not. One day something is allowed and the next day, it’s not.
No paid holidays. Benefits are SUPER expensive. Reviews are not always given every year in June like it says they should be. Raises are very few and far between. The company usually decides if you get a raise and it’s always a measly 2%. They are very strict on appearance - can’t have tattoos, piercings or colored hair (yet they don’t discriminate)? 
I used to love working for this place in my first few years, but it gets worse and worse every year I feel like. There is also no room for advancement unless you go from front desk to technician. Once you’re a tech, there is no where to advance to.

Was great company- then bought out by Big Corp. Untrained management that admits to being “thrown into the position”. Techs work for different docs- each team gets treated differently. They will not follow the handbook that protects employees rights. Bunch of us were threatened with reprimand for taking time off after getting Covid AT WORK.  Management will retaliate if you report they are breaking rules/guidelines. 
I was very sad to leave here because the techs are great people and I enjoyed my job- very high turnover- 12 people left in under 1 year at my location alone. 

Main location on Webb Road has the worst management I have experienced, highly disappointed. The hardest part of the job is just accepting the fact that your manager does not have your best interests in mind and will not root for you when you're ready to advance and learn a new specialty. 
The best part of the job is developing personal relationships with the patients and your co-workers.
Great talent in optical and technician departments but few are content or satisfied with their compensation and express very little desire to take on more responsibility due to lack of incentive.

This job had many ups and downs. The pay was decent. The hours were decent, but the work culture was near unbearable. 

Never before have I had to walk on eggshells with an employer. Please get any holiday or vacation time in writing or save your confirmation. Also keep your head down and don't talk to folks too much. 

Favoritism is a huge issue with this company. The unprofessional nature of caring for some employees rather than others was incredibly appalling. 

The management with be sure to pressure you on coming in even if you have a family emergency, are sick, or there is inclement weather. 


Busy Eye Clinic in a group of clinics under the same company. Nice that if we did not have a Dr at our office that could take care of a patients problems, there was an office that had a Dr that could. Love meeting the varied patients that came in on a daily basis. Some  days will get a little crazy just because all our Drs were in and so many patients were coming in and out. Coworkers and management were all very nice and for the most part easy to work with. I learned how to use the new Next Gen System, that I had not been on before.

I worked there for almost two years as a floater, driving to various locations filling in if someone called in sick or was on maternity leave or on vacation.

A doctor needed help in Hutchinson so, I drove about an hour and a half from my home.  Grene Vision Group denied me my mileage compensation.  They would only pay me mileage for one way when they use to pay me mileage for both ways.  I asked for a raise since I had my mileage cut in half and they denied me and suggested that I move to Hutchinson.
So, I quit.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great Management and Coworkers. Made it easy to not to be stressed out like most employers do.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lots of work, but everyone helped each other. Great Team Work!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Other than 6 people working together in a small room, we all joked about things and enjoyed the day.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
On line billing and coding process, the online was easy to achieve the daily work.

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