This story, as minor as it may be considering all that’s going on these days, somehow touches a fantasy nerve in almost every worker. Banker & Tradesman’s Steve Adams reports that Alexandria Real Estate, the giant life-sciences developer in Cambridge, is suing an ex-employee who the firm claims stole highly sensitive trade secrets and who reportedly admitted he planned to “flip everyone off and go run a company – and do my own thing.” … So if we got this right: Alexandria fired him before he could quit, his fantasy departure plans thwarted. …

Law360 first had the story. Contrarian Boston has more.