Uggh OLIVE GARDEN "EXPERIENCE" no thanks.

My stomach is still recovering from OLIVE GARBAGE oops "Garden". :(  I won a FREE GIFT CARD at a seminar raffle LAST DECEMBER but dreaded using it  'cuz I HATE driving to Wendover/Skeet club  Suburba-Hell.  I generally don't like CORPORATE Theme restaurants AND I'd heard Olive Garden was "disgusting" at best.   However, I reasoned IT'S FREE FOOD (-gas wasted) and I'm usually undernourished these days so I'd better go take the "medicine" (Seminar sponsor was insurer BCBS of NC) and get it over with.

WELL, I WASN'T DISSAPOINTED , I'd been told it SUCKS and it sure does even worse than I expected.  The bench seat was really low, like the ones in no-name Chinese buffets where too many 900 pounders sit stuffing themselves and killed the springs.  So my table was about chin level. I asked for a phone book 'booster' so I could SEE my menu but "Oh we're sorry" uniform-corporate rules won't permit that.

Then the waiter "team" (waiter and bartender share a customer) forgot which order and gave me some stiff,dry, chicken primavera in generic sauce with absolutely ZERO green lettuce(white trash variety on-the-house with our "unlimited salad bowl" -wow what a bargain!!) Oh yes plenty of "unlimited" bread sticks if you enjoy dry, tasteless, unseasoned, (not a speck of garlic) "Italian" hotdog-bun style bread.  I left one of my sample sticks "for the pigeons". Oops, I forgot there are NO pigeons in Suburba-Hell/Paladium shops.  Then, when I finally discovered I'd gotten the wrong order, the ever-sweet, corporate-restaurant-waiter offered to prepare me the order I DID want to take home(at full price, of course= your fault , no discounts!!) OH Well I managed to mostly WASTE my $25.Gift card BUT happily AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK UP HERE ANYMORE to "boost my nourishment" !!  

Ever the optimist, there WAS SOMETHINGS to be HAPPY ABOUT in my OLIVE GARDEN-PLASTIC-THEME-BOX CUISINE "Experience" !  1)The fruity, non- alcoholic iced beverage was actually ENJOYABLE, I drank it lovingly and then there was one guapo(latino?) waiter who's lindo cara I managed to see just twice, making me find my smile after all that gloom!!

Blue Cross/ Blue Shield - "Cut health care costs" claim laughable!

What a joke!  Blue Cross says it's trying to "CUT HEALTHCARE COSTS" hahaha , funny joke & pure Bull Shit too.  I have chronic bronchitis and am in remission from lymphoma cancer so a simple chest cold can often morph into PNEUMONIA requiring hospitalization.  My oncologist recommends I be treated periodically with the anti-cancer drug I.G.G. which would strengthen my immune system and keep me from being vulnerable to catching pneumonia. The costs of IGG therapy are somewhat high but still much lower than a 1-3 week stay in the hospital.

Guess what?  NCBCBS pays almost nada for IGG treatment (just a tiny, token sum so they can pretend to 'cover' it) preferring to GAMBLE that my bronchitis will NOT develop into a pneumonia requiring me to be a hospital inpatient.  So far BCBS has been lucky 2 out of four times. The times they were UNLUCKY and I was hospitalized it set them back to the tune of $40-50 thousand dollars!!  What they are really thinking, I imagine is, that one of these flu seasons I will catch pneumonia  but fail to wake up in time to phone 911, die and then they're gamble will PAY OFF BIG after they debit my estate!! (Republicans are nodding YES, that's just fine)   ....... bcbs "Cutting Costs".... hahaha it's just a joke guys.



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BENEFIT WALLET is NO BENEFIT TO INDIVIDUAL USERS!

Basically BNY Mellon's change to this "brand name" SUCKS PERIOD.

"BENEFIT WALLET" is structured ONLY to serve corporate HR depts.  If you're an INDIVIDUAL user, tough shit, they don't care about you because THEYRE BIG and can't be bothered with the natty details.

There's NO CUSTOMER SERVICE ANYMORE.  Unless you are satisfied talking to machines you'll discover that NO BODY WORKS in C.S. dept.  Emails are never answered. Phone calls result in a very limited number of canned options with no connection to a human agent.

Wow I sure miss last year when BNY/MELLON managed these accounts themselves.  But I suppose some know it all decided that friendly, prompt customer service was too QUAINT and efficient for BIG BUSINESS so they turned your hsa over to this XEROX owned faceless monolith.  I think I'm going to consider going to ANOTHER hsa not married to BCBSNC !