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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Amethyst_6 on 2024-12-28 14:13:55+00:00.

My grandpa told a story from when he was young and in military (mandatory for men in Finland). The group he was in had been recently reprimanded on how they shouldn’t do anything they were not ordered to do. Soon after, they were tasked to clear out an attic, it was a hot summer day, so it was like a badly warmed sauna up there. My grandpa was ordered to go take the trash to the dumpsters, so he went and did exactly that to the letter.

Instead of coming back he sat down near the dumpsters. Couple of hours later the person in command came looking for him and asked why he was there and didn’t come back to clean the attic. Grandpa’s answer was simple “I was ordered to take the trash to the dumpster, no one told me to come back”. He received no punishment and is still smug about it after almost 70 years