Complaint Review: LENSCRAFTERS - Mason Ohio

Its not illegal in most states to do this. If your state is a right to work state, they can do whatever they want with you. Including cutting your hours until you quit. Its a crappy thing to do, but its legal. It doesn't matter if you are the top person at the store, they could fire you for BEING the top person at your store.

I haven't had a job since April. I got a bad review, which is the very 1rst bad review in ten years of service for me. One part (on lens breakages) was on the nose and I accepted responsiblity for it, but than they held that against me in the second part, which has nothing to do with that part of the review. They gave me a 5% paycut over the trumped up 2. If I had gotten a 1, I would have gotten a 10% paycut. I've ALWAYS made high 3's to mid 4's. I am a good employee, (I stayed late, arrived early, worked both sides, lab and retail.) but you have to walk on water in order to get a 5, which means a 5% raise. No one ever gets those. But they are quick to take money back from employees. I am not the only one either. Have heard cases all over the states and Canada too, where longtime employees, who are making above the payscale, are suddenly getting bad reviews and paycuts. This is all part of their game to get longtime associates out, and get newbies in with less money. Its how they plan to get back money they lost. I took advantage of all the benifits while I worked there. I had te 401k match as high as I could get it, rolled it to an IRA and closed it out. Thanks to LC, I have had some money to live on during these lean times. Its funny, near the end, when customers were complaining to me about the store and products, I wanted so badly to agree with them, or to at least warn them that its only going to get worse down the road. That all those people who knew what they were doing, were going to be gone, and than they really would be SOL. But in the end, its just buisness, isn't it? The employees are the people on the front lines of the battle, and the first to go down. Survival of the fittest. Forgive me for quitting (aka, hiding in a foxhole)

I haven't had a job since April. I got a bad review, which is the very 1rst bad review in ten years of service for me. One part (on lens breakages) was on the nose and I accepted responsiblity for it, but than they held that against me in the second part, which has nothing to do with that part of the review. They gave me a 5% paycut over the trumped up 2. If I had gotten a 1, I would have gotten a 10% paycut. I've ALWAYS made high 3's to mid 4's. I am a good employee, (I stayed late, arrived early, worked both sides, lab and retail.) but you have to walk on water in order to get a 5, which means a 5% raise. No one ever gets those. But they are quick to take money back from employees. I am not the only one either. Have heard cases all over the states and Canada too, where longtime employees, who are making above the payscale, are suddenly getting bad reviews and paycuts. This is all part of their game to get longtime associates out, and get newbies in with less money. Its how they plan to get back money they lost. I took advantage of all the benifits while I worked there. I had te 401k match as high as I could get it, rolled it to an IRA and closed it out. Thanks to LC, I have had some money to live on during these lean times. Its funny, near the end, when customers were complaining to me about the store and products, I wanted so badly to agree with them, or to at least warn them that its only going to get worse down the road. That all those people who knew what they were doing, were going to be gone, and than they really would be SOL. But in the end, its just buisness, isn't it? The employees are the people on the front lines of the battle, and the first to go down. Survival of the fittest. Forgive me for quitting (aka, hiding in a foxhole)

I haven't had a job since April. I got a bad review, which is the very 1rst bad review in ten years of service for me. One part (on lens breakages) was on the nose and I accepted responsiblity for it, but than they held that against me in the second part, which has nothing to do with that part of the review. They gave me a 5% paycut over the trumped up 2. If I had gotten a 1, I would have gotten a 10% paycut. I've ALWAYS made high 3's to mid 4's. I am a good employee, (I stayed late, arrived early, worked both sides, lab and retail.) but you have to walk on water in order to get a 5, which means a 5% raise. No one ever gets those. But they are quick to take money back from employees. I am not the only one either. Have heard cases all over the states and Canada too, where longtime employees, who are making above the payscale, are suddenly getting bad reviews and paycuts. This is all part of their game to get longtime associates out, and get newbies in with less money. Its how they plan to get back money they lost. I took advantage of all the benifits while I worked there. I had te 401k match as high as I could get it, rolled it to an IRA and closed it out. Thanks to LC, I have had some money to live on during these lean times. Its funny, near the end, when customers were complaining to me about the store and products, I wanted so badly to agree with them, or to at least warn them that its only going to get worse down the road. That all those people who knew what they were doing, were going to be gone, and than they really would be SOL. But in the end, its just buisness, isn't it? The employees are the people on the front lines of the battle, and the first to go down. Survival of the fittest. Forgive me for quitting (aka, hiding in a foxhole)

I haven't had a job since April. I got a bad review, which is the very 1rst bad review in ten years of service for me. One part (on lens breakages) was on the nose and I accepted responsiblity for it, but than they held that against me in the second part, which has nothing to do with that part of the review. They gave me a 5% paycut over the trumped up 2. If I had gotten a 1, I would have gotten a 10% paycut. I've ALWAYS made high 3's to mid 4's. I am a good employee, (I stayed late, arrived early, worked both sides, lab and retail.) but you have to walk on water in order to get a 5, which means a 5% raise. No one ever gets those. But they are quick to take money back from employees. I am not the only one either. Have heard cases all over the states and Canada too, where longtime employees, who are making above the payscale, are suddenly getting bad reviews and paycuts. This is all part of their game to get longtime associates out, and get newbies in with less money. Its how they plan to get back money they lost. I took advantage of all the benifits while I worked there. I had te 401k match as high as I could get it, rolled it to an IRA and closed it out. Thanks to LC, I have had some money to live on during these lean times. Its funny, near the end, when customers were complaining to me about the store and products, I wanted so badly to agree with them, or to at least warn them that its only going to get worse down the road. That all those people who knew what they were doing, were going to be gone, and than they really would be SOL. But in the end, its just buisness, isn't it? The employees are the people on the front lines of the battle, and the first to go down. Survival of the fittest. Forgive me for quitting (aka, hiding in a foxhole)

This doesnt surprise me one bit...Luxottica is hurting right now after they acquired Cole National (Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Eyemed Insurance, Target Optical) and now they have to cut their losses. Which means, less benefit coverage, less commisson payouts, replacing employees with new hires brought in at a lower hourly rate. The writing was on the wall for a long time now that things were going to get ugly. Hell, Luxottica is starting to sell of the Pearle locations and convert them back to franchises, with the goal being that half of them will become franchise locations within the next year or two. I hope you and your co-workers are able to land back on your feet.