[ale] cabling and GA

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 16:32:04 EDT 2010


Scott,

As to licensing, what an employee does for his employer is totally
different from what a non-employee can do for that same company.

I can't confirm Jim's statement that a only a licensed electrician can
sell the service of laying cable, but assuming its accurate does not
imply anything about what an internal IT person can do it with no
license.

That is how my profession works.  ie. If I was an employee of a
Fortune 500 company, then I can legally run around internally
investigation other employees without a PI license, but since I'm with
a service provider I have to have a PI license in order to "collect
evidence for use in trial".

ie. You've just been terminated and I am tasked with asking you to
turn over any company owned thumb drives.  Legally I need to have a PI
license to do such ??? work.

Greg

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM, scott <scott at sboss.net> wrote:
> unless something has changed recently it doesnt take a license to lay
> cat5.  Hell to do fibre is a half day course with a certificate.  And
> that it technically not required by law but most people having fibre
> laid will ask for the cert.  Now most people that do lay cat5
> professionally (on a daily basis) are some form of an electrician.
> >From extreme apprentice to full blown electricians.  When I worked for
> the state, I laid many many miles of cat3, cat4, and then cat5 cable.
> And I wasnt a cable person.  I was just an able bodied IT person
> during the down periods that they could corner and make run teh
> cables.  After I left that site they hired an electrician to monitor
> the install jobs done by non-electricians. (he has some other duties
> too).
>
> I took a 1 hour cat5 course when it first came out.  we talked about
> the differences between cat3/4 and cat5 and had to lay cable in a wall
> then terminate the ends.  The slowest person in my class (using this
> term oh so loosely) was finished in 1:15.  And that was the class and
> test all in one.  Somewhere I have the cert that says I am certified
> to lay the cable.  And no one has ever asked me for one.
>
> just my 2 cents.
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
>> Got a phone call for someone looking to cable networks.  Needs a secret
>> clearance, I don't have one.  However, I realized I don't know GA law,
>> not being native.  Do you need anything to run cat5 in GA?  You don't in
>> OK, where I am most recently from.
>>
>> --
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>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
>>
>>
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