The free masons

[smilingcrow]

Apparently a lot of the bosses in my company are indeed free masons. Are there any on here? A lot of people are mem=bers and have high positions despite how bad they are. Has anyone encountered this before?

[sandyRoe]

Most of the people here are on the level.
How are they 'bad'?

[smilingcrow]

How do you join and how do you recognise a fellow fm?

[smilingcrow]

I mean they have no qualifications, technical knowledge or interpersonal skills. Thats how I define bad.

[sandyRoe]

You're invited to join.

[MarkRae]

http://www.ugle.org.uk/how-to-become-a-mason/

[smilingcrow]

I dont really have any incline to join really. I was just wondering how people get involved with the whole thing?

[sandyRoe]

It was the prospect of attending human sacrifices that attracted me.

[doctordb]

featuring Bailey tzuke.

[bert_h]

Like many other organisations, their merit is tarnished by a small proportion of members who are only in it for what they can get out of it, specifically preferential treatment by other freemasons. My uncle was a freemason, but (according to his son) in the 1940's he only used it to get cigarettes from 'under the counter' when other customers were being told "sorry, sold out".

[woofgang]

The freemasons that i have knowingly met have been just like everybody else, a deckhand at sea, a pub landlord (who went in as a Lewis because his dad was one, a leccy who couldn't stop talking about it. I honestly dont think that its any more pernicious than people belonging to the same working men's club, golf club or other cliquey organisation.

[Clanad]

I'm curious to understand why you correlate membership in an organization that's obviously outside of work relations with "no qualifications, no technical knowledge or interpersonal skills" which, apparently, are work related?
I'm also just as curious how "they" became bosses despite lacking skills that are orthogonal to success. Perhaps its you who are too much given to casuistry, no?

[woofgang]

sandy I am not on the level or a square person, being female kind of excludes me...also i am lousy at secret handshakes.

[Canary42]

They're a back-scratching misogynistic Secret Society on a par with such organisations as the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia.

[chaptazbru]

My Dad used to be a Free Mason, but he only went into it because of the fabulous social life, great dances, kids Christmas parties and so on. We all benefitted from it. I have a very religious Aunt and she always tut tutted about it though - don't know why!

[murraymints]

iwas thrown out of a dinner dance once with bf in the gang because i refused to join in the grand march thing hat happens... big boys playing silly little boy games !

[smilingcrow]

clanad I can see your point but it is common knowledge that many people are members in the company I work for. The back scratching obviously goes on here too. How else can you explain an idiot with no merits at all in a position of power? Luck? Bieng in the right place at the right time? No. Influencial 'friends'.

[chaptazbru]

In your opinion Murraymints - I resent my Dad being referred to as a silly little boy !!!

[sandyRoe]

Wolfgang, look on the bright side, you don't need to roll up a trouser leg or expose a breast in order to get a drink at the bar.