Questions and Answers about Specsavers

Hackney branch times are 9am to 6pm Mon-Sat and 10am to 5pm on Sundays.

Make sure directors are actually doing their job, our director at the stourbridge branch sits upstairs all day and does half a job, like telling patients he will call them back and doesn't or not bothering to put orders through correctly, cutting corners in the process, resulting in unhappy patients and making the specsavers brand look bad, also pay different staff more for higher roles as a meet and greeter gets paid the same as an optical assistant or a dispensing optician.

As stores a franchised it's the director who decides. At the store I work in we have axa insurance, so once a year you can have one pair specs or sunnies and it's discounted down to £105, we can then claim that back from axa, so we get them free. Also friends and family get 50% discount. The axa and specs are really great benefits, we have generous directors in that respect.

We paid monthly

At our store minimal jewellery and tattoos they prefer them minimal or not on show. Fake nails are no problem at all and length is not an issue either.

Depends on your store. We closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Other than that, holidays are first come first served. Some people are on set days so if they're already off, expect to work some unsociable hours over holidays.

Black trousers and any top. No colour specified.

Depends on your store, who has booked it and what days your set-hours colleagues work. If your store does it allow it, you need to request it sometimes a year in advance.

Whatever you like

Very unorganised and management were very pushy and demanded you to sell as much as possible I felt like I was taking peoples money for very overpriced frames and lenses, I felt very uncomfortable when I was told to sell as much as possible