No, this is why people figure out general and special relativity during office hours, or write novels in the break room.
In Robert Greene's book "The 48 Laws of Power," the First Law states to "never outshine the master." The natural sociological order is them in control, you submitting. Both of you benefit from the dynamic being that way.
However, I've found one fatal flaw in this wisdom: my boss's incompetence is too great for me to act dumber than them. On some level of a competence or work ethic gap, it becomes necessary to work unbelievably smart and hard just to pass off as less capable than your boss. I'm not worried about handicapping myself to the point of getting fired, I'm worried that no level of handicapping myself could actually work.
Recently, my boss spent half an hour processing an email and almost another hour negotiating their response to it. It took me exactly two minutes to process that same email, and I'd have made a more charismatic response to it in a third of the time while frolicking. To not outshine my master, I had to sit and watch this train wreck while making a face that performed theatrically, "Wow, that's so surprising how the train just derailed and died after the rotted section of track gave away. Yes, I can also spend a little bit of my afternoon trying to understand this unexpected development in train technology. No, nobody could see this coming."
I'm in the awkward middle ground between being too smart/hardworking for this kind of situation to not weigh on my mind, but too dumb/lazy to do anything about it. I don't want my boss's job, I don't want to quit, but I also feel the pain that this stagnation brings. Is this why people get hobbies like misplacing staplers in the office to cause pain? Or dating their worst coworker?
No, this is why people figure out general and special relativity during office hours, or write novels in the break room.