[PRL] doors, locks, and bolts

[Felix S Klock II]

PRL-

I arrived this morning (~8:20 AM) and found the door to WVH 308  
propped open by its deadbolt.  No one was inside the room.

This is not good for two reasons:

   1. While I usually secure my laptop within the lab, not everyone  
else does;  besides there are other valuables in here.

   2. We know from past experience that propping-via-deadbolt can  
damage the door to the degree that the door does not shut properly  
(and causes it to appear to be closed, but leaving it in fact  
unsecured/unlocked, even at night).

The latter is my main concern; even if someone were inside the lab  
(and thus implicitly securing it for the moment), that does nothing to  
prevent this long-term effect.

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Having said that, it would be helpful for whomever did prop open the  
door within the last 14 hours to jot me an email saying so, because I  
want to be reassured that it is not the maintenance staff that is  
doing it.  (Do it via a fake email address if you like; I hear Sir  
Arthur Conan Doyle is a popular source for pseudonyms. :)

(If someone believes that the maintenance staff has been responsible  
for this, now or in the past, and it is not one of the members of our  
lab, then we should raise the issue with them as well.  But I would  
prefer to check within our own group first.)

Thanks,
-Felix