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The company you work for is paying you to be on a CMP to be a tool of theirs to shape the code for their own benefit. For you to try to deny that is truly disingenuous.
I am sure you like the trade and enjoy being on involved in all the things you mention. That does not change the fact you are being paid for the companies benefit.
The fact is it is your job and you are paid to do it.
Is this not your title "Manager, Codes & Standards at (removed for privacy) Corporation"?
I am....but we produce both CU and AL and nothing on the panel I serve would technically benefit a wire and cable manufacturer. I get paid to be the technical code expert for the corporation I work for.....the choice to be on panels and help develop codes is a personal choice, the industry needs our product regardless of my panel activity...also I was not hired to be on panels. I make choices everyday that are not company driven, I answer dozens of calls daily from around the country to give my personal NEC interpretations of the NEC,UL,ASTM or ANSI codes other than those just directly related to wire and cable....which has taken me over a year to become fluent in all things OTHER than the NEC.....a lot of reading and trying to understand each organizations method of standard development.
I admittedly refuse to believe I serve on these panels to only promote the wire and cable industry and most certainly do not know everything about the codes I represent..this is why i come here hoping to debate beliefs and each of us to be respected for such beliefs even if we disagree and not be judged for it......
I submitted over 20 PI's this cycle and only a few had anything to do with wire and cable......it has been a life's passion to help develop the codes we use today......teach those who would like to be taught and try to assist others long before I came to this company.....and never got paid a dime for my free advice regardless of if you agree or disagree with it.....
I have had wonderful jobs and have had a blessed life thus far...I would not change the course of my career for anything......I have slowly moved up to where I aspired to be and I love giving back to the electrical industry...in any way I can. My serving on panels is less about the company I represent and more about giving back....call it what you wish...people who really know me...(none of which come on this forum clearly) know that my efforts are genuine.....I don't actually sweat those who disagree....however obviously I do enjoy debating about it...I keep coming back don't I....:angel:
Anyway.....enough of that. My focus was to show that this slide was incorrectly stated and nothing more yet it always comes back to me and what i do for a living...lol...such is life as it has not changed for years so I guess I should not assume it will now.