'What am I supposed to do with all these pies?': Horrible manager gives unclear baking instructions, now everyone takes home free pies

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    Font - Free pumpkin pies for everyone!! M OC This is a story from many years ago when grocery stores were closed on Christmas and Thanksgiving. I worked for a small chain of grocery stores in the mid- Atlantic in the deli (Santoni's shoutout!!) A day before Thanksgiving, the bakery manager asked if anybody from our department would be willing to stay and work all night just baking pumpkin pies for orders. We were open the day before Thanksgiving till four, then closed Thanksgiving.
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    Font - I volunteered as I was a college student on Thanksgiving break. I came to work that night and was left a note about temps, timing and packaging, but no numbers/quantities. This made me nervous, so I called the manager at home and said how many pies do you want me to bake? She told me to keep baking until she came in. And I questioned that, asking how many pies exactly do you want me to make?
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    Font - She, obviously irritated, told me that I didn't need to worry about how many, just keep cooking until she came in at five. OK! Cue malicious compliance... I loaded a six wheeler cart with frozen pies. Put them on trays and started baking. As the pies were baking, I prepped racks ahead of time and folded boxes while pies cooled... I was a logistical savant. Everything went perfectly and I was a machine operating at optimal efficiency.
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    Font - By the time she came in at five, I had cooked every pumpkin pie in her freezer. She. Lost. Her. "What the is going on?! What am I supposed to do with all these pies? You cooked over 400 pies and I only have orders for 100?!" The store manager, hearing the commotion, came over and asked what was going on. She said "she cooked every pie we have in the store, even the Christmas ones! What am I supposed to do with all these pies?!
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    Font - he asked "why did you cook all the pies?" And I told him "she told me to." He asked her if that was true and she said "no, well, I told her keep cooking til I got here, but nobody's ever cooked that many before, I didn't even think it would be close!" "Then this is on you" he replied and walked away. The best part was that since we were closed the next day, the employees were allowed to take all the leftover bakery items home with them. I took home 10 pumpkin pies and multiple bags of bre
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    Organism - nillanute4283 +1. 13 hr. ago My favorite part of this is the legitimate innocence of your compliance.
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    Font - Ok-Fishing-6604 OP. 13 hr. ago If she had just been more clear... I was worried that I wouldn't make enough, so I just kept pushing myself lol
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    Font - GullibleNews 13 hr. ago +1. That would annoy me. Just tell me how many you need! I much prefer to work towards a target, just tell me the number!
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    Font - Shadow Dragon8685 +27 hr. ago OP was given a clear directive: cook pumpkin pies nonstop until the bakery manager arrived. OP simply optimized throughput in a manner Bakery Manager had not anticipated.
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    Human body - zerglet13 13 hr. ago Perhaps this belongs on r/deliciouscompliance
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    Font - Artor50 11 hr. ago How hard would it have been for her to just say a number? She knew she only needed 100. That's only three syllables to say.
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    Font - havereddit 10 hr. ago I was SO hoping that you ended up selling all 400 pies and were thus the star of the store, but I'll also take "I took home 10 pumpkin pies and multiple bags of bread and rolls" as a win.
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    Font - Quiet_Goat8086 - 13 hr. ago As a pumpkin pie lover this would have made me so happy. And to think, all she would have need to do was give you a number.
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    Font - (4) Salt Koala2526 - 8 hr. ago edited 5 hr. ago I was a logistical savant. Everything went perfectly and I was a machine operating at optimal efficiency. I just want to say how beautiful this paragraph is. It read in my mind like a smooth engine.
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    Smile - GeekOf Doom 12 hr. ago Logistical savant is my new favorite way of describing myself.

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