You should teach your son to mind his own business - his life will be easier going forward because of it.

Virtually all restaurants have drug users. You’re not going to stop a systemic problem by trying to narc to the police or corporate. The owners of the restaurant, the people who actually have hiring abilities, desperately need warm bodies and they’ll more or less take anyone.

Assuming the police do anything at all, you’re looking at criminal charges for someone who will likely be replaced by someone else willing to do the same thing. Potentially even the young teen might get charges out of it.

Is that really helping anyone? If the teen is willing to take meth in the first place, that’s the real issue that needs to be addressed. She will just find someone else to get it from- that shit is rampant. I understand that meth is a terrible thing (I’ve been through heroin addiction myself, been clean 6+ years by now). But sometimes we just have to accept we can’t regulate everyone’s life without risking potentially worse consequences by doing so.

If you really want to help then you, the adult, should talk to this young girl who is using meth. Either talk to her or talk to her parents. Tell her what she’s doing is dangerous and she should get help.

Beyond that, what else can you do?

I mean, can you really not see a difference between adults using drugs in the workplace and adults in a position of power giving children dangerous drugs?

The question is “what should you do about it” not “should this be happening”

Instead of trying to prevent a teen from acquiring drugs, you should raise a healthy teen that doesn’t want to use drugs. If she is drug-seeking, you could arrest the adult in this scenario and her life would not fundamentally change. It’s easier to get drugs as a teenager than it is to get alcohol.

So the crime of giving meth to a teenager. Ok, that definitely deserves a prison sentence. So let’s call the police. But we have to look at the chances of

A) the police doing anything at all

B) the police doing a cursory investigation which reveals nothing and nothing comes from it

C) b) but with everyone at work knowing OP’s son called the cops

D) police somehow find enough evidence or probably cause required to arrest him

E) d) but with everyone at work knowing OP’s son called the cops

We could go all day, but having experience with calling the police… they won’t do anything. Even if they do a small investigation the real risk is retaliation against the son.

That is much more likely than the young teen improving her life.

You see what I mean? I am not condoning the adult that is feeding drugs to a child. I’m just saying in a game theory sense the best move is not to play.

You could have not written these two comments and have been better off.

OP asked for advice and I gave it. Wrong or right it’s my opinion and I have a feeling I have more experience with these things than most of the people here.

I wouldn’t risk the physical safety or mental health of my son by causing a drama at a workplace that won’t actually improve the lives of anyone involved. Girl will keep using meth and you’d have caused a giant headache and upended the son’s life for nothing. I guess everybody loves a telenovella

If you son’s manager was giving him meth, would you like someone to let the cops know?

No, by their own admission they want their kid to OD or get raped because someone doing anything about it is snitching and that’s far worse then anything else that could happen.

Teenagers acquiring drugs from adults is not inherently predatory. If it wasn’t the manager it could have been friends, family, neighbors, people at parties, sketchy street dealers, etc.

In none of these cases is anyone trying to take advantage of the person. Did we all forget our teenage years? I had adults buy me alcohol when I was 16 and 17. Meth is not alcohol but to a junkie it might as well be.

There is a such thing as context and if someone is being raped then I think the perpetrator should be in prison.

But in my opinion, OP calling the cops has a much higher probability to do harm than solve anything. So many risks

OP’s son gets ostracized from whatever social group he has at his job, if not physically retaliated for calling the cops (you ever met a methhead? They are not calm rational people)

Girl gets interviewed and is either high or has drugs on her. Now she has a felony charge for possession

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. These two scenarios are more likely than the adult actually facing legal consequences for giving a child meth. If I could snap my fingers and put the guy in jail, I would. But we don’t live in fairyland. The criminal justice system is fucked

Healthy and balanced people don’t use meth.

This is blatantly untrue and you should think twice before giving any advice about drugs again.

You’re either a methhead or a teenager, and I can’t tell

I’m merely pointing out your ignorance.

You know who’s at risk of using or getting addicted to drugs?

Anybody.

There’s no need for personal attacks.

People get addicted who have mental health problems. Mental health problems can happen to anyone. That doesn’t make it healthy. Diabetes can happen to anyone too.

personal attacks

So I guess I was right, which one are you?

Wow.

Instead of taking the time to read and maybe understand that you are wrong, you decide to double down on the accusations.

Try actually saying something sometime. Its not hard. Try to actuallg address something I said instead of acting as if you’re offended

I did, and you ignored what I had to say and personally attacked me by calling me a methhead.

The whole time, you’re too afraid to answer my question I asked “If you son’s manager was giving him meth, would you like someone to let the cops know?”.