Nothing new

Same old same old. Still having a bunch of work pile on me thanks to the delays in shipping. It may be like this because of the time of year but this being my first year on the job I can't be certain.

My work seems to be breeding......

Every time I'm about to finish a stack of glasses another comes in. Happens mostly in the beginning of the week when the order of glasses from friday and/or saturday doesn't come in till tuesday or wednesday. By then I already have a stack from monday and tuesday and it all just piles up. I'ts not overwhelming because I finish them eventually. I don't know if its the shipping department that delays the packages or if its ups.

Been a while

Since the last post, things have been rough. At first there were many mess ups and there were times I had to reorder lenses 5 times in a row, which is alot. A normal job should be good the first time it's done. A second try would be okay and after that its too many. Now it's gotten back to normal and I haven't had much trouble except for a sudden sleepyness that has over come me this last week. I think I've gotten over it now.

Solved Problems

So this past week I've received many of the glasses I've done back because they were off axis. I needed to try some trials on the machine so that i could try to figure out what was wrong. I ended up deciding to trace both R and L sides of the frame so that the machine could edge the lenses specifically to their shape and not do it off of symmetry. So far it's been going well and i haven't seen many of my past jobs come back.

Also we had to wait for a large order of frames to come in. We had a lot of people's glasses on hold because those frames were put on backorder by the distributor. I finished edging them and was glad because they were beginning to take up a lot of space.

Seems better

I actually have some work this week. It's strange how it feels to have a normal work week when I haven't had one in a while. I've been pretty busy.

Slow Week

Not too many glasses last week. I finished up all my work quickly every day. Some days I helped in front with making appointments and checking people in. Other days I stayed in the back looking for something to do and hoping someone came in to repair their glasses or to get their lenses changed.

Machine Fixed

The guy finally came in and fixed the machine. The polycarbonate lenses weren't staying put while being cut and causing us to be behind on many orders. The machine works now and everything is back on track.

So far...

I was interviewed toward the end of March by my current manager. I had to rush to the interview right after school since I only had a few minutes to get there. It went well and I was informed on the spot that I was given the job.
My training was only one week and I had to learn a lot fast. The guy that did my job before me was going to a new job and his last day was that Friday. We went through how to cut, or edge, the lenses all in 2 days and how to sort and spot (align the lens to the right prescription and mark it) the next 2 days. The last day we went over everything I had learned to check if there was anything I needed help with.
My job starts of with receiving a box of lenses and sorting them into the correct tray along with the patient's chosen glasses. I then go on to spot them and sort the trays in order of when the came in, form oldest to most recent. Then comes the edging part, which consists of putting a block pad on the lenses placed by aligning the marks on the lense to the traced shape of the frame. The edging is done by the machine after I input all the data and prescription.Then I clean them off, insert them into the frames, and put them aside to be verified.