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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/OilGlad7943 on 2024-05-23 20:53:49+00:00.

Remembered this from my childhood.

I was in daycare and Christmas was coming up. Our daycare educator (Mrs. May) asked us to cut out a huge stack of A4 Christmas trees with our scissors. Mrs. May forbid each table from going out to play until we had cut out all the christmas trees. She gave each table a sizeable stack of Christmas tree cutouts.

Now, this was unpaid overtime plus child labor. I came up with a simple idea. I got 5 papers, stacked them on top of each other, and cut them at once. All of my classmates at the table did this too.

Mrs. May went around the classroom and when she came back to our table to check up on us, we had already cut out all the Christmas trees. The gobsmacked look on Mrs. May face was priceless. We explained what we did and Mrs. May said that this was not what she expected of us.

True to her word though, she let us go out.