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> he emailed to "give me the bad news," he said "we're going with another candidate, but enjoy your summer at Company X!" I'd say this loosely qualifies as rejecting me like an asshole.

Really? Wow. I'd have interpreted that as an attempt at being "friendly", showing at least some personal interest and wishing you well.

I guess that goes to show it's difficult to predict how other people will interpret things. :)

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The implication is either that the candidate is actually going to end up as an intern (rather than full-time position) at Company X, or is only going to last a few months at Company X, or possibly that only Company X would accept such a candidate (depending on whether or not the candidate told him which companies had offered).

All the implications seem insulting to me, based on the story as told (that the guy wasn't interested in an internship).

They implied he would only get a summer internship when he was going for a real job.

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