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In Which I Discover 7 Years Late That All of These Buttons Are Fake

By Bruce Carton

I hereby assert special jurisdiction over the subject matter below under rule 3 of the Rules of LBW Procedure. And I'm not happy about it. I don't know what I was doing back in January 2003 and February 2004, but apparently it did not include religiously reading the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Had I been doing so, I clearly would not have spent the last seven years (on top of the many decades of my life that preceded 2003) adjusting office thermostats, pushing the "Close Door" button in elevators and punching the "Walk" button at street corners. According to the old articles linked to above, which I discovered seven years late via Consumerist today, many of the buttons in your life are fake. For instance, nearly all office thermostats are fakes. As one employee in a heating company with many landlord clients (and who installs dummy thermostats) explained, "complainers in the cubicles" were wearing on his employer's nerves. "You just get tired of dealing with them and you screw in a cheap thermostat. Guess what? They quit calling you." How about those "Close Door" buttons? According to the WSJ , they're fake, too, "unless you're a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).