if you lever is not pushing away from you, you've got it mounted wrong.
Sometimes the control and lever are on adjacent corners, sometimes they are both on the side, sometimes they are both on the front, and my White is mounted so the control is on the back and the knee bar is on the side.
Most common is the lever is mounted to the back side of the FRONT of the cabinet, with the control on the adjacent side.
Some have the control vertical, some have it horizontal. Some controls have the foot part the same lever you use for your knee, some have the knee lever screwed to the foot control so there is no separate lever.
I've got to get to work soon, so don't have time to go take pictures of the different setups my cabinets have.