This is the creepy reason matt lauer had a secret button under his desk by namina forna.
Matt lauer button to lock office door.
About that secret button in matt lauer s office the anchor s door locking mechanism acts as a particularly vivid metaphor for the amount of power and protection many influential men enjoy.
Lauer fired on wednesday amid allegations of sexual misconduct didn t install the button that enabled him to lock his office door automatically from his desk it turns out.
This takes us back to the original variety report which didn t necessarily say that lauer was trapping women in his office.
Former nbc news anchor matt lauer denied that his office has a secret button that could trap unsuspecting women inside his office two years after the claim sent shock waves through the media industry.
The washington post also looked into the button and after talking to people familiar with 30 rockefeller center s offices learned that the button locked the door but only from the outside for situations such as a shooting.
His office was in a secluded space and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up variety reported adding that lauer allegedly.
As variety describes his office was in a secluded space and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up.
A detail in the news reports of lauer s workplace conduct animated the narrative.
Nbc fired lauer on wednesday after the network received a.
The mechanism was a.
A similar button exists or at least recently existed in the office of.
The nbc insider added that lauer s secret button wasn t the only one at nbc s 30 rockefeller plaza headquarters.