You don’t say what type of work your friend does.

Just because your friend stopped working and you “worked like never before” doesn’t really tell us a lot. If your friend is the building security guard and “stopped working” translates into did not walk the rounds but just sat at the console from start time to break to lunch, then there’s an understandable level of what not working means.

Likewise, “working like never before” could also mean that you lowered your billable hours to next to nothing or actually

NONE !!!

It’s a great anecdote. But we need more parameters. After all, you know what happens when we “assume.”

Viva