Feeling Guilty
Finished my summer stint today and am feeling a little bit bad about what I did to another one of the interns
For some context: I’m at a regional office and there were 4 interns, but it was pretty well known that there were only 3 full time spots, so the summer was pretty cutthroat. I was being grinded way more than the other interns — I was staffed on two marketing projects (by myself) as well as some occasional miscellaneous stuff (grabbing GrubHub for the analysts and associates at night, restocking the kitchen area, and taking inventory of the merch closet, etc). The other interns were on 2 live sell-sides each, but they had an entire deal team to support them (analyst, associate, vp, etc.)
I remember one night as I was heading out around 7 one of the interns (my least favorite) was really stressed out about having to start a model for one of his deals. I looked at his screen and no joke, he was literally given a template DCF and LBO, proof that these other interns were getting it easy and I was being disadvantaged (Probably because I’m a non target)
Anyways, where the guilt comes into play: we all had an individual summer intern project where we had to make a mock pitch from start to finish. We were all reviewing each other’s decks the night before we had to present to some of the seniors, so when I was reading through I put some small errors in this same guy’s deck (misspelled someone’s name on the team page, deleted a few periods, capitalization stuff, misaligned logos, etc.)
After he presented, I could hear him getting chewed out in the conference room by the seniors who were calling out the mistakes. When he got back to the pit his eyes were a little glossy and he said that he had a ton of errors in his deck and he’s not sure how he missed them. He feels terrible
Offer decisions are next Friday, and debating if I should fess up. The thing is I really want this offer and know I’m a killer banker — and at the end of the day IB is essentially cheat to win, win at all costs
Am I a dick for this?
Congrats, you sold your soul. You saw an opportunity and you capitalized. Just remember that it’s suicide to come out about this. Nobody can tell you what to do now. This is something you need to figure out on your own. What kind of person do you want to be? As much as I hate to say it, if it were me, I’d never mention this to another soul and delete this post asap, and I’m aware that makes me a POS. It’s about time you’ve figured out what kind of person you want to be. Last thing, remember that you don’t have to continue being a POS when you come back FT - you have another chance to make yourself whole again.
“The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it”. Karma…
Yes you are. Unfortunately if you were as good as you think you are, you wouldn't have had to sabotage this other intern to beat him out for the spot.
I'm not here to make moral judgements though, just answering your question. Advice would be to not do this again in your career - when you get caught you are very cooked.
I see nothing wrong with this. Banking is a cruel industry and you need to get ahead any way you can - props to you
fake. No way you don't do final skims through your deck to check it, at least once, more likely several times the night/morning before giving a presentation (on top of checking before printing and binding, which is how most intern projects are presented). And also no way you don't make a backup copy to compare changes before giving it to peers to review
yeah this, I dont work in IB but even I know its very easy to trace who and what kind of changes were made in the PPT ... this is like fake post from early 2000s....
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coming from a non-target, even I wouldn't do that. That's a bitch move.
What an absolute fucking waste of sperm you are
Low blow :/ especially if he hasn't done anything to you. I don't know if it's worth telling anyone about it now because it would destroy your reputation, but you should help him get back on his feet after this in some way. Whether it's helping with mock interviews or something, I have no fucking idea, but this shouldn't become a norm.
My goodness all of you people keep falling for these fake posts, you are all fools.
So true for all the people on this site going to target schools, they’re aren’t quite smart as they think falling for fake bait like this.
You probs got the lame tasks because you have a bad personality and it checks out by doing this to someone.
Silly of the other intern to have given you access to the original deck, anyone with half a brain cell would've made a backup copy
Assuming this isn’t fanfiction, I can only hope this was a one-off. You come across as a malicious psychopath still asking if you were a jerk here.
You are not a killer banker, you're maybe going to become a first year analyst. You're not bringing in any fees lol.
No point in owning up now, I'm not even sure what it would do? But viewing things as a zero sum game is just wrong and your lack of collaboration-mindset is worrying and I would not want to work with you and would flag your behaviour in considerations for return offers, personally.
10/10 rage bait although the only flaw is positioning yourself as the non target as this behavior more aligned with entitled target stereotype
horrid
people are not "targets" and "non-targets." there's an analyst at my firm who went to Princeton and seems like he's got it all together - nope. He went there on questbridge (full-ride for the underprivileged) and regularly sends money to his parents to support them.
as a non-target, you're disgusting for assuming that you can rationalize this decision by saying it's okay cause he's at a target school. the kid you fucked over isn't just a "target student" - he's a human being like everyone else.
So clearly satirical. How are people taking this seriously?
Someone took "The Penguin" too seriously
IB is not cheat to win at all costs. Cheating by definition is for losers who can’t compete on their own skill or intelligence. This act makes you weak & the runt of the litter of your class…
This is for sure a real story.
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