[nostatic]

So we have summer intern positions in our labs. Typically current college students or just-graduated. Pay ok, mostly is a couple of months of work for them to learn stuff, us get some heavy lifting done, and then either they move on or if they graduated, we may keep them around.

Kid (just graduated) comes in to interview for a position. We send him the thumbs up and try to nail down paperwork. He emails back today saying that instead he's decided to try a startup with a friend. No problem - best of luck. Then the last line of his email:

"I would like to ask that the lab and other members...consider the information that I have shared about this project to be confidential."

Umm...excuse me? You come in looking for work, decide that you want to be the next Oculus, and now want retroactive confidentiality? Much more likely is that *he'll* be taking ideas that *we* disclosed during the course of the interview.

I need a vacation...