..."The Water Fountain Needs To Be Rebooted"...

They installed a new water fountain at work -- one with spigot to fill water bottles with an electronic on/off sensor. The LED display that counts "plastic bottles saved" is flashing an error code.

Times have certainly changed from the old glass 5 gallon bottle sitting on top of a ceramic tank...

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I prefer the ceramic. Not everything needs to be computerized.

Don't get me wrong. I like my laptop and my smartphone. But, enough with the computers already.
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An "electronic off" sensor. What could possibly go wrong.
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The Internet Of Things shall spell our doom, one byte at a time. I don't need my fridge to tell me I'm out of milk.
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Yep.
Oven, sure.
Dishwasher, of course.
Cable TV receiver, occasionally.
Even a clothes washer, sometimes.
Heck, cars, all the time.
But you would never suspect the water cooler.
It probably lost it's connection to the NSA. You fixed it.
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It looks like our facilities folks do not (yet) know now to reboot it. They cannot simply power cycle it as the power cord is behind a screwed-on panel :-)
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We don't have LED's, but we have had the 'motion sensor' type for a long time. I swear those things (as well as the ones on sinks, soap, etc.) must all come with a candid camera. I end up waving my hands and doing a fn jig just to get a drink of water most of the time.
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They took all the water fountains out where I work, now we have coolers with ice and bottles of water. The coolers are usually empty though. Now they complain about water bottles being thrown on the floor.
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So what, they want you to throw them on the ceiling instead? :-)
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My gym has one of those fancy water fountains as well. Damn thing is always out of order.
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:-)
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^ We're only about 20 years behind Japan. I was afraid to sit on a crapper when I first got there.....wasn't sure I'd be able to figure out how to flush the damn thing....after three years I still couldn't operate a toilet very well....lol
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Reminds me of that Stallone/Snipes/Sandy Bullock flick, Demolition Man, where Sly didn't know how to use the three shells. :-)
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