With my current job that doesn't happen. The only time I ever had downtime was when I wasn't trained in all of my job duties. I really like that because the day goes by faster and when I get downtime I get lazy. I need to constantly be going full speed until I clock out or my work gets sloppy. When I was a secretary my workload was either completely insane (email from boss with some huge ass attachment and blue comic-sans font: "jassie i need paralegal do research on the line to learn and then study this contract and tell me if it is good, also make website and business plan asap for meeting tomorrow") or I'd have nothing to do for like a whole month because the boss isn't doing his work. During those particular months I'd just do what I do on the internet when I'm at home, minus the porn. Sounds nice on paper but he was the worst boss ever and I wouldn't take that job back for forty dollars an hour.