"Xavier Rolet, who ran the London Stock Exchange for eight years, said the younger generation of bankers should stop complaining about long working hours or find another job.

He suggested banks should hire "poor hungry kids who managed to put themselves through college" instead of "entitled" graduates.

Mr Rolet, who worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and in London early on in his career, said on LinkedIn that he would regularly work 130 hours a week, seven days a week in the 1980s.

He claimed: "We'd work the whole New York trading day in the office, have dinner on the desk then trade Asia and Tokyo from 8:00pm until 10:00pm, go home during the half-day recess and trade the Tokyo afternoon session from home from 12:00pm to 2:00am.

Grab some shut-eye until 4:00am to put our orders in the European markets in time for the opening… quick commute to 40 Wall to be in the office by 6:30am to continue to trade our European orders in time for the pre-opening in New York. Tokyo was open on Saturdays and half day every other Sunday in those days."

This boomer is full of shit, so he regularly got maximum 2 hours of sleep during weekdays for weeks on end? lmao.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42885483)

I 100% agree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42887972)

We need him on that wall

http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE97/Belenky97/Belenky97.htm

We studied sleep patterns (using our wrist-worn Sleep/Activity Monitor described below) during the 58 days of U.S. Army Ranger School. These 58 days involve simulated light infantry operations against a superior force. In a study of one class, ranger candidates averaged 3.2 hours of sleep each night over the 58 days of the school (Pleban et al., 1990). In a second study of two classes, ranger candidates averaged 3.6 hours each night (see figure -- Ranger School: Average Daily Sleep in each of the Four Phases). This sleep was not accrued in a single sleep period, but rather occurred as several naps over each 24 hours. Anecdotally, cognitive performance in ranger candidates is marginal, with frequent episodes of what the rangers call "droning"—i .e., the candidates can put one foot in front of another and respond if challenged, but have difficulty grasping their situation or acting on their own initiative.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42885644)

You don't say.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42885700)

And it was always funny to see him guys fall asleep while walking. They would just wander off a trail or stand behind a tree, thinking it was a person who they needed to follow.

There’s no way this boomer was running on 2 hours of sleep a night for years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42889353)

https://youtu.be/k9kKFuhNPMo?t=952

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42885689)

paul's sidekicks seem like characters from the office

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42889375)

plus banks and bankers don't care. they know banking is coveted by legions of ivy league and state school kids alike and they should go through what we went through, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42889452)

He'd be dead or would have severe dementia if he got 2 hours a sleep night after night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42886010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4891455&forum_id=2#42887005)