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Best I-Banking summer internship stories in thread!

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A girl in my class walked around the office every night at 8pm and dab in front of every desk. 

She didn’t get the return.

I didn’t either.

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I interned at a BB and here are a few stories from the summer:

1. One kid had to grind so hard and towards the end of the summer he had a book due but his MD was in Westchester and seeing the client the next day - they made the kid uber from NYC to Westchester and back at 3am to drop a hard copy of the book off to the MD. 

2. Some VPs bet an intern $200 if he could eat 24 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in an hour - he did and got the return.

3. One of my friends was working with a team to prep some materials for a huge client who had a notoriously aggressive CEO. He was asked to crunch all the numbers for the book and he grinded for days to create all the outputs and then handed the book to his associate who obviously made changes and sent it up the chain of command. The big day of the client meeting soon came - they were trying to win the CEO's business and they had to present at the client's headquarters. The meeting had the CEO, his right hand and then an analyst, an associate, a summer MBA associate, a VP, an MD, the Partner of the group and finally the summer intern (my friend). So the team present the CEO with the book and he looks over a good 50 pages (skims it quietly), before then turning to the partner and saying 'This is a load of Horse****' and then he throws the book in the trash from his chair. He then started verbally assaulting the team saying that they did a terrible job, they're wasting his time, all the numbers were wrong etc. and the partner then starts apologizing profoundly while the whole team is staring in silence, mouths wide open. After this, there was a deadly silence before a cough. 'The numbers are right' - the summer intern says. All heads turn to him as he's standing in the corner (there weren't enough seats at the table). 'Excuse me' - the CEO said. 'Yeh - I ran the numbers and they are right, i checked them over a few times to make sure. Can you tell me why you think they're wrong?'. The whole team was shocked and the partner and MD were so pissed at the intern and tried to shut him up. 'Um...Let me see' the CEO said as he turned to his right hand man as if he would have the answer. The CEO then proceeded to walk towards the trash can, pick out the book he just threw there and asked the intern to explain where every number came from. At the end of an hour, only the CEO and the intern had spoken throughout the meeting and by the end the CEO says 'I'm fed up of Yes men trying to win my business - thank you for speaking your mind'. The team walked out of that building having won the client's business and my friend obviously got a return offer. Absolute madness! - he became a cult hero.

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