I say this in quotes because not everyone with a job could really be considered "professional" at it but there ARE certain things I feel like they should know. Common knowledge for the field and all that. (Like how restaurant workers should keep raw and cooked foods separate and wash their damn hands as an easy example)

Got new nosepieces for my glasses at a lenscrafters and the lady cleaned my lenses with a spray and all which would be fine aside from the fact that she used a tissue (which I didn't initially notice due to being blind with my glasses off). She also handed them back to me looking dirtier like... I would have sooner happily taken them back covered in fingerprints than the hazy streaks they were covered with.

For any of the non-bespectacled, tissues CAN scratch glasses as they are made of paper and contain microscopic bits of wood, additionally they leave heaps of lint. Luckily mine have a scratch resistant layer and are newer but that's besides the point. All other eye docs and glasses retailers I've been to in the past few years made a point to tell me what NOT to clean my glasses with to avoid scratching and always cleaned them for me with microfiber and lens safe spray cleaners.

Thankfully the nosepieces are comfy and silicone and seem to be sitting properly. I asked for an adjustment but she said they looked fine. 🙄 I suppose. I think the silicone will prevent the slight slipping down the nose I was having anyway.

Anyone else have any stories like this? Someone in a job where they're really missing the mark with what you believe should be basic knowledge for the job? Maybe just made you cringe in general? (like an employee at walmart I could smell from 10 to 15 feet away 🤢)

I got lectured for using just cotton on my glasses for literal years, by an eye doc with 20/20 vision, and after the lecture, they cleaned my glasses with a tissue. I left that practice.

Full shade on anyone who tells anyone what to do with their glasses or any other aid and they're like... perfectly healthy. Invisible illnesses exist, I get it, don't come for me for that. But this is one of those professional no brainer instances.

When I was told by professionals about glasses care it was also a full explanation of what can scratch them and just reducing damage when possible. And the ppl I like to go to give me free lens cases and wipes and sometimes lens spray as well. They get that with the cost of glasses I want to maintain them for as long as possible you know? They're always delicate and considerate of whether certain adjustments could be damaging etc.

I def wouldn't appreciate being told what to do with my glasses. Like the weirdos that say "oh just stop wearing them they're making your vision worse". I constantly forgot my glasses as a child when my vision was significantly better. Didn't help and am now legally blind without them so like... no it doesn't help it get better I just got garbage eyes. At least they're a nice shade of steel blue/grey.

One that bugs mine more and more, is the misappropriation of the word "so" in Spanish speaking media. This can come from who mine would think are educated, native speaking individuals.

It's bad, mine also fighting that dumbing of age...

One time I went to the gynecologist, and I had waited longer for an appointment so that I could have a female doctor. When I got there, a male doctor came in. When I told him I was uncomfortable disrobing and requested a female doctor or nurse, (and even specified that my reasoning was trauma-related,) he got angry and insisted that I was GOING to let him perform the exam, and demanded I disrobe on the spot.

I immediately got up and left. I don't know if he felt insulted or what, but I was WILDLY uncomfortable. I ended up going to a different office entirely after that and they were great.

2 Different Rheumatologists decided I didn't have anything wrong with me despite many symptoms by just looking at me...I don't know if it's because I'm a youngish woman but like. What the heck is making them just say "Nope she doesn't need ANY testing she's fine I just know." One even sat 5ft away from me across a table and just crossed his arms and said,"Theres nothing wrong with you. I can tell. You're fine." Just looking to get someone to run some immune disorder blood tests to rule things out. Pretty messed up and annoyed 2 different "professionals" blew me off even though I have been suffering for a LONG time.

New guy got hired as a C level executive in the company I work for. In his intro meeting he was telling about his past experience, etc. He then started talking about the rough divorce he went through a couple of years ago, and ended it by saying he's single and looking, and that he likes blonde women. I was cringing the whole time.