The myth of waiting around

What is this myth of people waiting around in the afternoon to turn comments received at 10pm? I am swamped with multiple live deals from 9am to 2am week in, week out and can assure you I’m never waiting around for comments. Basically when I work on something, I push back on something else. 
 

is it just my firm ? If so, how is it possible ? (I mean, you do work on deals, right ? -Deals are not just turned off during the afternoon...)

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I think it became very different when working from home was finally normalized. When I was an analyst, waiting for comments was unfortunately a given. If we had a live deal (obviously) or a strategic alts deck for a board or something of the sort, the whole staying for comments thing became pretty normalized unfortunately. It was a massive waste of time and I will say depended a lot on the MDs who were leading the deal but on aggregate was an expected practice.

 

It just depends. I'm cross-staffed with the same VP and different associates so the VP may be tied up on another project and you're waiting on comments back from them, so you get a break. I think if you're on a larger team the squeeze is less on the VPs and more on you/your associate. Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

 

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