The employer would need cause to drug test for most jobs. https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=357-37-200

It is definitely not meaningless. Even if some companies try and get around the rules like you are suggesting, it would be a whole lot more hassle for companies to come up with some reasoning to send one of their newly hired employees to go and get a drug test on their first day. Then, once again, come up with some bs reasoning to fire them without cause. That sounds like a recipe for a lawsuit to me.

I'm not saying it will never happen, but I definitely do not see it being as prevalent as pre-employment drug screening is currently.

It's meaningless.

They can test you the first minute of your first day and fire you because they don't like the socks you're wearing.

Just did it bro, my life is a thousand times better.

I think hospitals would still have to test due to federal regulations/licensure

I'm originally from Chicago and have been in Seattle for 6 months now. By far the mildest winter I've ever experienced. I was worried about the rain and cloudiness before coming out here as well, but the rain hardly is more than a drizzle. Plus the warm temperatures and more accepting people easily make up for having less sun in the winter

often, but the rain usually just sprinkles compared to anywhere else in the US. Gray drizzle is the usual weather here, second is perfectly sunny with blue skies. There was like one or two actual rainstorms last year.

Stayed Mcmenamins Kalama Harbor Lodge in 2021. We had a room overlooking the river. Highly recommended.

Would this be for all jobs? Government, hospitals, schools etc?

Western Washington and populated areas of eastern Washington all pay considerably higher than any red state. Teachers in Washington are union members and we have a very strong union so our pay, benefits, working conditions are better but we experience the same educational issues as everywhere. Consider what you are looking for as far as big city vs suburb vs rural. I teach in rural Olympic Peninsula my pay is about $20,000 less than districts along I-5, but I still make $82,000 after 9 years.

I used to work there, so I shelved many a book in that special collection section. There's a lot. If you really wanted to get deep in the weeds, you could almost come spend a day or so looking through everything...but you can probably just request some things. Some they can't interlibrary loan, but quite a bit can.

It was actually quite a big deal. Dad was the corporal with the high security clearance who sat with the guys with the keys on the late shift. He only recently started talking about it - took that 50 year NDA seriously. I am learning some stuff. Sounds like your family knows some stuff too!

Thank you so much for filling it out!! I haven't read your response yet but will look into that library. Thank you so much for telling me that!

We used to go thru Kalama frequently and we always stopped to eat at the Kalama Inn Restaurant because Mom and Auntie loved their liver and onions on the senior menu. Great burgers, grilled cheese, homemade soup and pie… Old, advertises that Bob Hope and Elvis stayed once at their Inn. Kalama has an awesome totem pole that was the world’s largest from a single cedar, it’s displayed laying down because it rotted and it’s down by the water. With another standing pole.

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Umbrella, what's that? lol 😆 Some people say, that's how you can tell who's not a local. When we first moved to WA, 12 years ago, I, too, carried an umbrella. Now, I just wear a coat with a hood.

I feel like it would be hard to do unless the whole country does it. If the rest of the country still uses the imperial units, the state will still need to deal with that.

Ditto, from arkansas. Looking to move near vancouver in 2 years.

B-e-a-utiful!

I filled out your survey, but I'll repeat it here: contact NCW Libraries in Wenatchee - they have a giant Pacific Northwest collection and you may be able to interlibrary loan some of it.

Agreed. I dont have a scale either though.

I’ve stayed in a couple McMenamins (Troutdale & Centralia) and loved their character. The one in Centralia right next to RR tracks do that was noticeable and I see the one in Kalama is as well but I’ll bet the River side is awesome.

I’ve been to Mcmennimans to eat, I haven’t stayed in the hotel. I’d recommend it. Woodland wa, just a tiny bit south has some boutique shops as well

My wife is a cook - she says recipes using weights are more consistent than volume no matter your units preference but I think you are missing a connection... if you are using weights (grams) you need a scale... period - none of those books will tell you a universal gram to teaspoon conversion and there is not metric equivalent to a teaspoon... but if you do find yourself with a cookbook mentioning weight/grams just plop it in a container on your scale (hell that container can be a half cup measuring cup) and move along.

> Summers aren’t so bad.

I would go further and say that summers are incredible. There's a lot of light. The day never ends. Rain is much less frequent, and actually refreshing when it does occur. It gets warm, but not incredibly hot. Only downside is how much denial people are in over the temperature, to the point they don't even have AC. That is a big mistake.

> And “The Long Dark” doesn’t really hit people until they experience it.

This is true. People seem to think it will only affect you if you have SAD. But SAD is relative. We have a biological need for sunlight. Some people will have symptoms anywhere. But here, you have to make a specific effort to get your sunlight and vitamin d.

I never had issues before, even when it got very cold or very dark, because it wasn't so permanent. But now I'm really considering buying one of those blue light therapy things. Only reason I haven't is that I feel like I could make my own much cheaper.