So my manager comes across as a bit invasive in the lives of the other employees at times, though one of them was arrested for a drug charge (he’s out on bond for now but he still has to go to a hearing) and one of the other employees uses the store phone for personal things. Even I worked seconds a little bit and got calls asking for the same employee. So my manager notices how often she stands on smoke breaks and how often she’ll talk on the store phone under personal matters.

Well one of those days I was working second shift I got a call from the employee, who we’ll call Jesse for simplicity. Jesse informed me she was sending her granddaughter, who we’ll call Tina, to the store to get a free refill. She takes full advantage of it but oh well.

I didn’t think much of it but when Tina came in, I hadn’t noticed any car dropping her off or her getting back into a car, and she definitely came into the convenience store on her own and we’re in a sort of meth head county area. I didn’t think much of it at the time but recently my manager shared with me that Jesse’s kids are being investigated for neglecting and/or abusing Tina.

Part of that too is they want Jesse to retire, which my manager and Jesse say she’s able to do and do so comfortably, but she just refuses to for whatever reason. It’s not my business to know but both Jesse and the manager have said it so I know it.

And it’s gotten to the point Jesse has called out a lot, not even for this, just calling out for several days, and tbh idk if it’s because of my manager or not since I really like the manager. She’s nice and willing to work with you as long as you put some effort into your work. She even lets me save the barcodes on stuff I snack on if money is tight for me so I can pay for it all once I get my paycheck. I never had to but she’s offered that, she’s offered to pay out of her pocket for my gas when my money was tight one week, and with another employee who since left, he let someone go after pumping $80 worth of gas but not paying for it, and she paid out of pocket so he could keep his job as long as he paid her back.

But either way, Jesse’s work has been affected by the constant calls from home at the store, and she’s called out the entire week for the child services people to come.

The thing is though, Jesse I don’t think is exactly the best guardian. Like I mentioned earlier idk the whole situation or who’s involved or anything, but Jesse called the store to say Tina would be coming and as far as I could tell Tina walked through a bunch of backstreets to, into, and from, a convenience store on more backroads in the middle of methhead and homeless territory.

I thought about contacting child services anonymously to leave that little tidbit about the case but I don’t want to call. I can go online but idk the granddaughter’s name.

Well I then made a post on r/legaladvice and got a couple comments and some downvotes saying that it’s not any of my business to know this and that it doesn’t make any sense to them and now I’m questioning myself about it.