My son is afraid of reporting this to police because many of his friends work there, and he’s afraid of retaliation at school for being a “snitch”. This is not the first time he’s witnessed something very wrong and had to report it, that time to police, and he was targeted at school both physically and just with asshole kids treating him the way they do (while also influencing others).
Management made up an excuse and fired my son after it became apparent that he knew about the meth situation and was not ok with it.
He does want corporate to know all of this and take action, so we plan to report it to them.
Part of the trouble is this: My SO’s daughter had a similar situation at another fast food joint, it was reported to corporate, and the response was basically “we can’t do anything because that location is a franchise”. The problem manager in that instance was promoted soon afterward.
I’m not sure if my son’s restaurant is corporate owned or franchise. If it’s a franchise as I fear, and corporate will take no action, what recourse can we take without police?
I’m super pissed my son was exposed to this and I’m concerned for the girl that informed him, not to mention the other employees. This obviously cannot stand, but I also don’t want to ruin my son’s social life over it. I remember being a high schooler, it’s hard enough without being targeted by jerks.
EDIT: Thank you for all the replies. I plan to wait awhile to give my son some distance, then contact police. To all who said we live in a broken place, you’re right, and if we could move immediately we would. It helps to get outside perspectives on stuff like this, and I appreciate all your replies.
Also fuck Spez!
So, I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but drugs aren’t the major problem here. We have presumably an adult male giving hard drugs to an underage female.
This could easily be a situation where management is grooming this poor girl so they can rape her. Police need to be notified ASAP.
Your son’s high school buddies are not more important than the safety of a child.
Hell, depending on your state you might have a legal obligation to report this to the police.
I think there’s a couple of nested problems. The first problem is a manager is giving employees meth, which could have been your son, if not now then maybe one day. You know what to do about this, but it’s nested within another problem, which is how to do that without alienating your son.
So talk to your son about what bothers him about what happened and what he wants to do about it. Then, after he talks, tell him how it made you feel and what you want to do about it. Ask him if that’s something he would like to do, have help with, or have you do for him.
You’re asking the right questions, but I think you’re asking the wrong people.
Yo if a manager is giving their children workers meth that is 1000% a police report and if your son gets punished that sounds to me like an easy lawsuit. Please for the love of God report this, the kid is probably already fucked for life but this manager could be using their position to get kids hooked on drugs so that they can do pedo shit. Someone has to say something.
Even without any ulterior motives, meth destroys lives. Permanently. I have friends who had the tiger by the tail in high school, got addicted to meth, and spent the last 30 years bouncing in and out of prison and insane asylums. Report that motherfucker immediately! He’s destroying lives, families, and communities.
Can confirm, my sister is addicted to it, she’s lost both of her kids, the youngest is now in the permanent custody of my mother.
Meth is absolutely crazy, my sister fucking bit me like a feral animal, she also thinks she’s a god and thinks it’s okay to walk around ass naked in the streets. When I said ‘what if a kid sees you’ she said the kid would be a weirdo for looking 🤦
Don’t do meth.
Report it to the police, corporate and consider talking to your local news. Make sure school admin is aware as well. If you can shift them to different schools (i know not always possible) do so.
My usual response to this kind of thing is to get louder not quieter, that said, I’m also able to put on an angry enough face to make people cross the road which is not a power everyone has.
Go with your comfort level but I would urge reporting to the police and doing what you can to get out of what sounds like broken area.
I’m going to be an asshole here but hopefully it adds perspective. Do you care if the girl dies of a drug overdose, or that she may be getting targeted with grooming by a manager for other reasons? If you do, you report it. If you don’t then just live your life and turn a blind eye. There is no in between. Hopfully nothing happens to the girl that you could have prevented.
