Which describes cherry picking?

• A. Grabbing my orders before one that's been done
• B. Picking cherries from a bowl
• C. Only picking the completed orders first
• D. Avoiding completed orders

Answer: (A)

Cherry picking is selecting the most favorable items from a group, often skipping or bypassing the less desirable ones. In a work flow like handling orders, it means prioritizing tasks you want to do and pulling them out of the queue ahead of others or ahead of tasks that have already been completed.

The option describing grabbing my orders before one that's been done fits this idea perfectly: it shows choosing the orders you want to tackle first, ahead of another order that’s already finished, which illustrates selective, preferential picking. The other options describe literal fruit picking or behaviors that don’t capture this selective prioritization, so they don’t fit the concept.