On Thursday, June 17, HBO Max “mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list,” according to the service’s customer help account on Twitter.
Among those weighing in with words of support for the anonymous intern thrown under the bus: Monica Lewinsky, one of the world’s most famous ex-interns.
“Dear intern, I once globally took down Spotify,” wrote “Daenney,” whose bio identifies him as “ex-Spotify.” “It almost happened twice.
Also commiserating was an Amazon Web Services principal engineer, who tweeted, “Dear intern, It’s ok.
Dear Intern, when I was 25 I made a PDF assigning each employee to the Muppet they reminded me of the most.
Dear Intern, I was using my desktop calendar to make a monthly note of when I started my menstrual period, but after several months I realized I was making that note on a calendar I shared with all of my colleagues company wide.