When X =/= X...

[Ashaela]

I'm paraphrasing and changing some details in an attempt to be deliberately just-vague-enough....

Got a message today: "It says here that I can employ a particular specialist as long as I supervise the specialist at least 10% of the time. If my main office is in Virginia and the specialist is working full-time at the office in Texas, can that be by telephone?"

I wrote back: "Here's what the rule states: Specialists cannot practice unless they have a supervisor. Supervisors must be present at least 10% of the hours that the business is in operation." I included full text of the rule and the citation.

Got a reply soon after: "So, by 'presence' does that include a tele-presence?"



So now I'll have to go bother our already-overworked and stressed out General Counsel's office (seriously, there are only three of them, researching legal questions for what was, at last count, 70,000+ licensees and any other state citizen who asks, just so this guy can have a definitive answer he'll respect that yes, 'must be present' really does mean you must be physically present at the location.

[Captain Trips]

So, for a forty hour week, this guy plans on being on Skype with this other person four hours each week? (Tele-presence implies video as well as audio streaming.)

Netmeeting may work, too. But it seems to me that they need to be able to see each other for a solid four hours a week.

[Kristev]

Being there in person means being there in person.

[PepperElf]

o boy. it sounds as moronic as having to tell someone something like, "'No drinks at the computers' applies to all liquids, not just soda."

oy

[EricKei]

"'No drinks at the computers' applies to all liquids, not just soda."

Indeed. I'm fairly certain that spme people have gone out of their way to insist that a rule like the one you're referring to means that alcohol (read "drinks") is forbidden, but not other fluids. Or worse yet, that toxic liquids are allowed because nobody in their right mind is gonna be drinking them.