What did you vote for in the stop-build day survey?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

• Bagging as currently practiced at least simulates the concept of a ship date. Long-lead ship dates are a real thing in my professional world; we prep equipment in-house and ship it to (mostly) foreign ports where we install it on a ship. Carrying software and small hardware upgrades is also a reality; I have hand-carried both software and hardware many times, and only once did we pay excess baggage because the hardware was in excess of 30 pounds.
• Build until the deadline also mimics many shops.
• Access periods in your own shop don't have any real world analogs that I am aware of.

I am quite sure that both sides are able & willing to come up with tortured real world analogs to bag day or no bag day to support the conclusion they've already reached for other reasons.