Underage drinking got caught by boss

Hi guys,

So I just finished the 2nd week of my summer internship think (JPM, GS, MS, ). To celebrate, my intern class decided to go to a bar's happy hour. I decided to go and I got a drink but I was not carded (not 21 one more year). After getting the drink, my manager(VP) who knows that I'm not 21 saw me (I didn't know she was at the bar) and came over to where I was and said "she saw that I'm drinking when not 21 but it's going to be our secret and she wouldn't tell".

Should I be worried and would that reflect badly on me?
P.S I'm a female. I paid with my own money and there were other employees at the bar.
Thanks.

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Her comment makes it clear this is not a problem.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

Thanks for the quick response, I guess I'm over thinking it. And NO, it's not UBS.

That was my first time drinking at a bar. I mostly drink at home.

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
 

There is nothing wrong with UBS, my cousin interned at UBS last year and he loved it. I didn't want to give the name away but it's one the three (JPM, GS, MS). I don't drink alone but with my 21 and over friends at my house.

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
 
notthehospitalER

Wow, what's wrong with UBS? And drinking at home (esp. if you mean alone) sounds sad.

Don't talk shit about drinking alone.

Also, I have a dog, so I never drink alone. We cook steaks and drink brandy. Fuck you.

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

I started working there 2 weeks and I have only had 1:1 with her 5 times so I couldn't pick up her intention.

She started by saying "she Is friends with the bartender and that she is going to give him my information to know that I'm underage but she later said ...it will be our secret and she won't tell".

Obviously, I freaked out a lot.

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
 

This. Please don't be the retard that goes to events and announces that you're underage and can't drink. You did fine; don't get trashed and no one will care.

 

Reasons why I threw Sheet at you OP:

  1. Your username is a reference to the homo on Big Bang Theory

  2. I can deduce with a confidence interval of 95% that you are Asian (if not then Jewish)

  3. You are incredibly uncool.

  4. Like the judicial concept of innocent until proven guilty, you are a fag OP until proven otherwise

"I did it for me...I liked it...I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive."
 
-caP1taL1sm..

Reasons why I threw Sheet at you OP:

2. I can deduce with a confidence interval of 95% that you are Asian (if not then Jewish)

3. You are incredibly uncool.

-caP1taL1sm..

I play a ton of League of Legends. In the off chance anyone agrees with me, can you get more dexterity from the hand-eye coordination of video games to help with your Excel modeling?

She's clearly not as cool as you... playing video games so much that you think you've developed enhanced musculoskeletal dexterity that can of all things make you better at excel.

If she's so uncool by your standards, where do I sign up for a similar indictment?

 
Marcus_Halberstram -caP1taL1sm..:

Reasons why I threw Sheet at you OP:

2. I can deduce with a confidence interval of 95% that you are Asian (if not then Jewish)

3. You are incredibly uncool.

-caP1taL1sm..:

I play a ton of League of Legends. In the off chance anyone agrees with me, can you get more dexterity from the hand-eye coordination of video games to help with your Excel modeling?

She's clearly not as cool as you... playing video games so much that you think you've developed enhanced musculoskeletal dexterity that can of all things make you better at excel.

If she's so uncool by your standards, where do I sign up for a similar indictment?

ETHERED I fucking love this guy.
heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 
Marcus_Halberstram -caP1taL1sm..:

Reasons why I threw Sheet at you OP:

2. I can deduce with a confidence interval of 95% that you are Asian (if not then Jewish)

3. You are incredibly uncool.

-caP1taL1sm..:

I play a ton of League of Legends. In the off chance anyone agrees with me, can you get more dexterity from the hand-eye coordination of video games to help with your Excel modeling?

She's clearly not as cool as you... playing video games so much that you think you've developed enhanced musculoskeletal dexterity that can of all things make you better at excel.

If she's so uncool by your standards, where do I sign up for a similar indictment?

Damn yo, you quoted me from another thread I made. I just hope you don't pull a muscle...you know, trying so hard

"I did it for me...I liked it...I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive."
 

I've spent a lot of time on the internet so I'm pretty much an expert in these types of situations. A couple of months down the line you two are going to be working really late and she;s going to ask you for a back rub. When you say no she;s going to say she saw you drinking illegally and will tell the CEO of the company on you. Before you know it... you are giving her a back rub than go back to work on your excel

 
bluegold

I've spent a lot of time on the internet so I'm pretty much an expert in these types of situations.
A couple of months down the line you two are going to be working really late and she;s going to ask you for a back rub. When you say no she;s going to say she saw you drinking illegally and will tell the CEO of the company on you. Before you know it... you are giving her a back rub than go back to work on your excel

Yeah and then the next time it won't be her back that you're rubbing. Just FYI.

 
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I was gonna call you a massive pussy. But you're a chick, so...

Don't be such a pussy, hon.

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

Damn I get messed up every weekend on hard liquor. I guess that's why I'll have to settle for Big4 or CorpFina but still some uptight peoples in here.

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

Not everyone in Finance has a booming social life and exposure to it, there are people who legitimately study 99% of the time. OP probably studied hard and deservingly landed that SA gig @ top BB firm and you guys are grilling her for being paranoid about her situation. It's fine as long as you don't make a fool of yourself in front of your peers.

 
GanciniBelt

Not everyone in Finance has a booming social life and exposure to it, there are people who legitimately study 99% of the time. OP probably studied hard and deservingly landed that SA gig @ top BB firm and you guys are grilling her for being paranoid about her situation. It's fine as long as you don't make a fool of yourself in front of your peers.

says the kid with the faggiest belt known to man
heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

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