Yes. There was a ton of this going on as well.

We were almost always the first to say that we needed an extra week. Tons of harrumphing. We were, however, never (maybe 1 exception) the last team to ask for another week.

The thing is when we said we needed 1 week, it meant we needed 3-6 business days. When they said 1 week, it meant they were too scared to ask for three.

The inanity of the whole thing is that the project we were on was behind by a year that people would admit to (it was more like 30 months), so who the fuck cared if our division delivered our part three months late? It was going to collect a lot of cobwebs before it got properly exercised.

Bunch a drama with absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

I am amazed there is an wiki article for this.

See also https://wiki.c2.com/?ScheduleChicken