This HBO Max Intern Failed So Hard That He Became A Meme But It's All In Good Fun

We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. ❤️

— HBOMaxHelp (@HBOMaxHelp) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern, when I was 25 I made a PDF assigning each employee to the Muppet they reminded me of the most. I meant to send it to my work friend, but I accidentally sent it to the entire company. My supervisor (Beaker) wanted to fire me, but the owners (Bert & Ernie) intervened. https://t.co/zMKvQ6nxjj

— ?aerin? (@AerinChevyFord) June 18, 2021

dear intern:

it gets better.

♥️

ps. don’t wear a beret for awhile, k?

— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern,

It's an email. At least you didn't erase the entire Community Access TV station's chyron graphics archive on accident.

Signed,
A Broadcast Engineer who once erased all the chyron graphics at a Community Access TV Station by accident when he was an intern.

— Mark "Noodles" Kewman (@mkewman) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern,

I once auto-populated a mass vet email from @morris_animal to list the constituents as their “dogs name” instead of their first name and it got the best email response ever. A mistake turned into a new marketing process when we sent mass emails.

— James Harper (@JHarperMedia) June 18, 2021

Dear intern, for the first two months of being admin we thought this was a rose emoji ?. So every D-Rose post had a tulip instead.

how far we’ve made it https://t.co/HkpjHNabJd

— Bulls Talk (@NBCSBulls) June 18, 2021

Dear intern,

I once globally took down Spotify. It almost happened twice. My team was awesome about it and I'm still here. You managed to find something broken in the way integration tests are done. It's a good thing and will help improve things. Good luck <3.

— Daenney (@daenney) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern,

I heard someone once got their ship stuck in the Suez Canal creating a massive issue with world trade and product delivery. You'll be fine. ❤️

— ATXMomster (@ATXmomster1) June 18, 2021

Dear intern, I once sent an email to 5k employees asking them to update their benefits but I didn’t bcc them so hundreds of ppl hit reply all and then hundreds more hit reply all to tell others not to reply all and it crashed our whole system email system. https://t.co/gE8BBjtv7v

— Jenny Lawson (@TheBloggess) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern, as a young lawyer I proof read a legal brief and filed it with the court. I caught a typo and blindly used the global find and replace function. Pro tip: don't do that. My brief argued for the rights of "the panties." Not "the parties." All 50 pages of it. ??‍♀️?? https://t.co/PDJYMXuOlw

— Suzanne Lovett (@sdtlovett) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern, as a very young copywriter I once had to write a brochure about a prescription drug that "reduces mortality in patients," but it turns out I actually wrote that it "reduces morality in patients" and nobody caught it until 50,000 were printed.https://t.co/HrMqHIXhg0

— Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) June 18, 2021

Dear intern,

I once sent out a 1-900 sex hotline as a conference call number for the Women's National Democratic Club, the average age of membership was about 78.

Shit happens.

— Rae Pickett (@RaeRoca) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern,
I once sat a server room on fire. You'll be fine.

Breaking things & making mistakes happens. This counts as experience btw. You discovered an issue with the integration systems, which is awesome. Also, you now have a breaking production story you can tell for life. https://t.co/jdsqCUtcr9

— Steve Ragan (@SteveD3) June 18, 2021

Dear intern, at least this (common) deployment mistake didn't put an entire state—and possibly country—on false alert. https://t.co/DOKlRhp4OZ

— Tonya Iseminger (@tonyaiseminger) June 18, 2021

Dear Intern,

I broke my boss's windshield after I accidentally drove an electric pallet jack off of a loading dock.

That was my second day.

Everyone makes mistakes, that's just a part of being human. ?

— Erin Leigh (@pukeuprainbows) June 18, 2021

Dear intern… a colleague once used xxx dot com in a draft newsletter while we waited for the client to provide a real hyperlink and somehow it stuck so when the newsletter went out and you clicked the link, it took you to xxx dot com and it’s as bad as you think.

— Torrid Disorder (@redhot_mess) June 18, 2021