How to leave an internship you just started?

Well so I started working yesterday for the this quantitative division of a research firm which sends its reports out to IB, PE, and VC firm. Today, I just got a call from a boutique IB firm, I interviewed for two weeks ago and I was extended an offer to join them for the summer.

What would be the best way to tell the research firm I will have to leave them after just one day?

I honestly feel really bad for the research firm because they gave me their company e-mail and gear for the summer..... So, what would make them less curious and sorry that I am leaving? Instead of them coming after me for leaving?

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Tell a lie. I'm not joking. If your current firm treated you with respect, you don't want to come off as a total a-hole. Keep in mind your at an age where you need to build your connects. Does your current job not pay? Im assuming the new one does. If so, just simply let them know that you are broke and need a job that will allow you to pay your tuition and rent.

 

There is no particularly good way to tell them. Just man up and tell the truth. You know what you have to do. Its just not easy to do it.

“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Schopenhauer
 

what firm? i'll replace you :)

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