I was working as a stockboy in a supermarket and when we had to fill the milk cooler people would bust open a 12 pack of milk cartons and put them in one by one.
On my first day I just placed the 12 pack in the cooler and cut the plastic off on one side with my box cutter and yanked it from under it and the look of the store manager and the other employee who was training me was pure bewilderment.
From that day everyone did it my way.
I’ve heard variations of this going back 30 years in the automotive repair business. I often paraphrase a version of it when cutting some corners or doing things in a weird way that saves time and energy, but maybe isn’t the safest. Probably not the original intent but…