Who's that idiot designer?

I received a new docking station at work. While connecting it to my external monitor, the connection didn’t seem to take effect…so I fiddled with the cable, plugging it in properly… The monitor still showed nothing, but then suddenly my laptop seemed to have been switched off. I was extremely perplexed - what happened?

Then I somehow noticed that the top of the docking station (it is a sort of cube with rounded edges) had a little space between it and the actual body of the docking station. It seemed slightly pressable. I had a bad feeling about it…and checked the user manual.

And as suspected…the top of the docking station is the power button.

Who was the idiot designer who decided to create a hidden power button that you can press accidentally without knowing that it is there or that you have pressed it? And especially when that power button will shut down your PC without any warning? Did you think that people will go "wow" when they discover that button? More likely they will curse you to death! Bring out the voodoo dolls! *poke poke*

I already knew that a docking station’s power button would switch off my PC…it was learned from experience when I first used a docking station (I tried to switch off the docking station but instead it powered off my PC :P ). But I don’t blame them that much because the button was clearly a button!

(Note: It’s a HP docking station.)