So to start off I used to thoroughly enjoy the job I currently have. I have been at the company for over 2 years now and only accepted a full time position last year after one of my mentors (mentor #1) relapsed. I work in a niche field of manufacturing large products at a long established company. Things eventually went swimmingly until recently. Management is not very large. It is the owner, myself, my “retired” mentor (mentor #2), and the plant manager. Then there are less than 20 Union employees. I was in charge of the parts, the plant manager was in charge of the people, and I have always done my best to abide by that. The manager has been with the company for over 30 years and knows quite a bit about the facility, but lacks some professionalism when it comes to talking to people. When mentor #1 relapsed and came clean about it, the manager flew off the handle and my mentor was fired. Unfortunately, he is not the only person who was getting high, and it’s only gotten worse in the year since he’s left. We now have employees snorting stuff off their desk, nodding off at their workstations, and smoking marijuana on their breaks. Some of these people then proceed to operate heavy machinery and this has always made me anxious. The owner only comes to work maybe once every other week, mentor #2 works from home, so it is the plant manager and I every day at work in terms of management. He has acknowledged that some employees have been caught smoking marijuana, that needles and baggies for heroine have been found, and that one man cannot physically stand straight when he is high. Well that one man (let’s call him Richard) has grown a history of being belligerently high over the past two years, has been given numerous warnings, and was even caught attempting to steel thousands of pounds of equipment to scrap. He cannot stand straight, slurs his words immensely, falls asleep in various locations, and cannot comprehend what situations are around him when he is high. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I caught him falling asleep on the forklift and got video proof. I walked right into the plant managers office and told him he was unfit to be operating the forklift as I just watched him fall asleep while driving. After the manager had a word with him, he remained at work while still suspected of being high, and was told to either go operate a different machine (that he has injured himself on before while suspected of being high) or go home. Well he stayed and went to the different machine and starting yelling at me with a crowbar in his hand about how I was a snitch and that he wasn’t high as he was spitting all over me and slurring his words. I remained calm and talked through it with him and he eventually dropped the crowbar. I told the manger about this and nothing was done about it and the employee remained working while suspect of being high. Fast forward a week, and another (newer) employee was suspect of being high and he blamed it on his child going through surgery (a very stressful situation). Well the manager sent him home immediately and told him not to come back until after the surgery was done. The plant manager has overlooked Richard being high, stealing, threatening me with a crowbar, and allows him to stay at work while suspected of being high, but he decides to send the newer employee home immediately. The plant manager has had a problem with me since I brought the issue with Richard up and has started hounding me about why I leave early some days, when we had discussed that I will be in early and out early to make my shift at another job. The owner knows I work a second job, and I believe that the owner does know know the full extent of the Richard situation as the manager hasn’t told him everything. I am supposed to go on a work related trip in a couple weeks, but no longer feel welcomed or safe at work and am trying to determine if I should give the owner an ultimatum to be either stricter on drug policies or I am leaving. Is that too much to ask? Otherwise I am looking for employment that pays better and is safer elsewhere, but I am unsure what to do about the work trip.