<p>Hey, I accepted an internship a not too long ago and already started doing some work. </p>
<p>Today I just got an email from another employer, more well known than the first, saying that they accepted my application.</p>
<p>I would be a fool for not accepting the second internship. How do I go about telling my current employer that I want to quit? I am the only intern there and he doesn't know about this offer. I feel kinda bad because I'm the only 'helper' there in the office.</p>
<p>There is no way to go about this without looking like an unprofessional, self-serving ******* and burning every bridge in that place along with the bridge of anyone they know. End of story. What you’re doing is unprofessional, self-serving and *******-ish.</p>
<p>As an intern you are just getting started in the professional world and you are royally screwing up already. You’ve got a bright future.</p>
<p>::rolls eyes::</p>
<p>I’d say it depends what the two places are. If the new job seems that much better, you may want to go for it. Try to make an honest assessment of what leaving your current job would mean. Realize that making management at a local business angry is not going to ruin your reputation as a professional. If you’re honest with your current employer, they may not even care if you leave. You’re probably not going to make a bad name for yourself as a 20ish intern. Nobody cares about you that much.</p>
<p>It’s never good to burn bridges, but then again, everyone encounters bridges that they have no interest in crossing a second time.</p>
<p>Honestly, do what you feel is best for your future. If you feel the other internship is a better opportunity for your future career, then take it.</p>
<p>Just be professional to your current employer. Explain to them that you got offered another position that you feel is a better fit for your future, an opportunity you cannot afford to let pass. Give them two weeks notice and thank them for the chance to intern with them.</p>
<p>Also, see if you can recommend another intern for him from your school. That might help soften the blow.</p>
<p>I would consider asking the “better” place if they would be willing to hold your application and let you start at a later time, perhaps in the spring semester?</p>
<p>if they don’t, then you will need to choose. If you leave the first company, they will probably never hire you. That may or may not matter to you.</p>
<p>I strongly disagree with the advice of others to leave. </p>
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<p>Really? And you can be sure of that how? Have you experienced this? </p>
<p>This is purely a matter of professionalism. It would be so immature and childish to leave this current company. If the other company likes him, they’ll hold it for him. They would actually probably respect the fact that he is not ditching his current employer for them.</p>
<p>I recently attended a local business chapter meeting and the older, ranking members spoke about our generation (graduating college age) and the lack of patience. They said they are seeing things like what the OP is suggesting doing happening all the time and that you must be wary of the people who behave like that. All in all, they were on the same page that you shouldn’t hire someone who clearly displays ZERO loyalty. That is so true. What if another great company comes calling right after he starts? Will he leave them? </p>
<p>If the OP has received a paycheck than the employment is in his records and when a company does a background check it will come up that he was at this one place for X number of weeks and bolted. A big-time red flag.</p>