A customer in Tacoma told me they bypassed their own system for convenience...

I was doing a yearly check at a house in the North End last fall. The owner casually mentioned they had been leaving their back door sensor taped down for months because the dog kept setting it off. They said, "It's just easier this way." I had to explain that one open zone could let someone slip right through. Has anyone else had to talk a client out of making their own system useless?

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4 Comments

ross.christopher2mo ago

People love to defeat safety features for a tiny bit of convenience.

the_mia2mo ago

Ever wonder why we do that?

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eva_moore2mo ago

Maybe it's just a weird human need to test limits.

charlies3717d ago

Tape a sensor down? Smart move honestly. The dog sets it off ten times a day, you get annoyed, you start ignoring the real alerts when they come. A bypassed door you know about is still better than a system that trains you to tune out every beep. The real vulnerability is the false alarm fatigue, not the taped sensor.