Should I ever rat out my boss?
Loyalty to your boss is so important. It's one of the most important things. Do really good work for your boss but also stand up for him. Never gossip about him, never participate in office politics especially when it has to do with your boss. Stay to the background, you don't need to get involved. If you work directly for someone you probably know a lot about them. You take their calls, you check their email, and it's really important to keep that to yourself. You don't know what's not important and what is important. So what you think is menial and can just share with someone on the phone might actually be really big. So it's important that you build trust with your boss and really just never say anything. If the worst comes to worst, and I say it all the time, when people are yelling at me and whatever, I'll say "You know what I'm really sorry but I'm just the intern". Push it off on the internship and say I don't really know. People are like "I want to know this and that" and I'm like "I don't know", and that's okay. Because it's better so say "I don't know, I'm the intern", than to give out even the slightest bit of information that could really be damaging.