Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : Some background: I'm a high schooler working (paid) in a position at a small office essentially overseeing unpaid interns. I got this job because I had been an intern for a long time previously, and was promoted when the previous manager left.

I was an intern alongside my friend when I got promoted. As a manager I noticed that most of the time my friend was just on his phone and browsing the internet most of the time instead of doing the work. To be fair, most of what we do is data entering which can get fairly monotonous. I can understand my friend for slacking off because at the end of the day he's and unpaid intern just volunteering for the experience.

However, today my friend sent me a draft of one of his college essays talking about his internship at the office, and he completely lied about some the things he did there. For example, he said that he was promoted to senior intern for his work (there never was a promotion). He said he was tasked in this new position to delegate and oversee new interns and had the freedom to create and manage projects (thats my job). He said he had conversations with the head of the office to improve the projects (I'm not even sure the head remembers his name). Finally, he said that he was leading a particular project we were doing that I actually supervised. 

Essentially, my friend was saying on his college applications he was doing the job I'm doing, while not even fully doing his duties as a regular intern. When I asked him about it, he straight up admitted he was lying but said I shouldn't care since it wouldn't affect me any (we're not applying to the same schools). I basically told him that I would make sure the person who promoted me at the office (the head of the entire intern program) would follow up with the colleges he's applying to, so he should change his essay to make it reflect the truth. I can understand embelleshing your achievments, but not straight up fabricating them. Now he thinks I'm an asshole.

Am I?