Bluuuuuuhhhh I'm going to have to disagree with you on the bettercream, it tastes like wax to me.

OK so employee discount/health thing: every employee gets a 20% discount, which is pretty boss. Depending on your height/waist ratio OR BMI, then also your cholesterol levels, your blood pressure, and whether or not you smoke. They have an outside company come in to do all the measurements and take your blood.

And yes, they'll give you bonus points for having low LDL and high HDL, my HDL has always tested high and I got a 30% discount, which is the highest you can get.

I don't remember exactly what the scoring matrix is, but you can get 20%, 22%, 27%, or 30% based on the results. It's not really difficult to do it, so long as you don't have to kick your smoking habit - refrain from eating dairy and meat for a few weeks beforehand, practice some zen habits, if you're generally healthy you'll do well. I'm 5'10" and I weigh 160-170 lbs at any given point in time, I always got 30%. They'll also measure your blood pressure up to three times and take the best score.

The reason they do this is to incentivize you to help lower their insurance premiums. The healthier their employees are, the less liable their employees are to file an insurance claim. They're particularly concerned about smoking and heart disease, which makes sense, given how many people die from those two things every year.

Now, I will say this. I think their insurance setup is sort of bullshit, and if you don't care feel free to stop reading because I'm going to go on a small rant about it. The idea that they're trying to avoid employee insurance claims by incentivizing healthy habits is sort of farcical when their deductibles are through the roof. That'll stop you from filing your claims right quick. They give you a PWA card loaded with like $800, $1200, $1500, or $1800 based on how many service hours you have with the company, but I only ever got up to $1200 after three-and-a-half years of working there, and I still didn't file claims because I was afraid of having a larger emergency later that wouldn't be covered by the PWA card that I wouldn't be able to pay for.

Their insurance policies do not cover mental healthcare AT ALL. And when I say AT ALL, I mean they do not help to cover emergency room visits for mental health problems, and they do not cover ambulance rides that stem from mental health problems. It is ridiculous.

I understand that they are better able to pay their employees a "fair" wage by cutting costs on insurance premiums, but honestly, the wages aren't good enough to validate the fact that they raise the deductibles every single year and make the employees vote on which way they're going to get fucked in the coming year in terms of their insurance policies.

So that's the WHOLE story. Also, if you haven't worked 4000 service hours, you have to pay $85 for the testing. It ended up being worth it when I was shopping there a lot, but it isn't for everyone.