Sure enouih, the job's unfinished, the jerk is gon., and who gets to fix everything....yup...me!

So I go to attach wall sconces (lamps) to the two switched wall lamps. Expecting the black hot, and white cold, I find that the switchable options are black hot, white cold, or both black and white hot???

Is this a real screw-up? Or is it ok? Seems wrong, and bizarre to me. Though of course the light will be off when both legs are hot, but I never thought the white was supposed to be hot, except in a three way switch?

Can someone set me straight on this?

Thanks