Double-standards

[TooMuchCoffeeMan]

Before reading this, understand that I have no problem with people of differing races/religions than my own. However I'm quite pissed off, and feel the need to vent a bit, so please bear with me.

Well, I work at a major construction company, and we've got safety policies and strict guidelines that pretty much sum up that if you screw up or keep on ignoring the safety regulations, you're fired, no questions asked. So all of us on my work crew are stuck with full safety gear and having to be extremely careful in what we do, except for one of us... A Lebanese guy who, for some reason, can get away with whatever he wants.

This lazy bastard can sleep on the job, tell off the bosses, steal from people's yards/garages, grope female employees (all of whom have since quit, understandably), wreck new $45,000 company trucks, go around any site without any safety equipment, go shopping and pay his bills on company time, and the bosses just turn their backs and ignore it.

If any of the rest of us on the crew or in the company (all white males) tried to do that, we'd be fired on the spot, without even a blink of an eye.

That is what pisses me off is that the prick gets that nice little double-standard. He gets away with everything he can short of murder, and we're on edge wondering if we'll get fired every day. I wonder if this is because he's a racial minority, or if there is some other reason the company isn't willing to say to the common workers. This guy has gone so far as to attack co-workers, including myself twice, with tools, with full intent to severly injure or kill the person, and they company won't listen when you make a complaint, and make sure you can't do anything to try charging him with assault for it.

Honestly, I'm so damn disgusted with that guy and how the company does nothing about him that I'm ready to quit, but the pay is too good to let up right now.