Pre 2020, what happened if work was slow

Work has been slow for me for the past few days and I have "worked" from home this entire week. Literally have not gotten an email in over an hour and everything else on my plate i've finished them. 

I take long ass naps and go to the gym intermittently checking my phone.

Before 2020 what happened when this was the case, would you just be in the office pretending to work and tapping around aimlessly on your keyboard for 12+ hours? Or would you come in at 10am take 3 hour lunch breaks and leave at 5 or 6pm

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Smart phones were a thing back then too! Gym is a great option though. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Yeah pretty much. I did that in 2019, 2020 pre-covid, and I do it today. Granted before PE I was on a corporate M&A team not at an investment bank so I probably had a lot more freedom than a typical IB analyst, and today I work remote so I don't actually tell my MD anything I just go and if they send me something while I'm working out I tell them I stepped out and will be back in 30 unless it's something pressing. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

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