‘Yes, it was the intern’: HBO Max email blunder breeds Twitter hilarity

After some took their confusion to Twitter, HBO Max Help tweeted an apology: “We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening.

We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening.

Rather than being eaten up by Twitter, users responded with a “Dear Intern” series, sharing and documenting their errors as interns many moons ago.

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.

Dear intern, At my very first job I sent out a major corporation’s press release 12 hours early and they had to reschedule a product launch.

. Wasn’t until I was packing them that we realized they said May 5-7 instead of May 5-17.

She has previously interned at Radiolab and the “Today” show and has bylines in Teen Vogue, Allure, Glossy, Gothamist and more.

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