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People Tweet Their Worst Work Mistakes, Consoling HBOMax Intern

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    Remember how we said the email wasn't anything spectacular, well, here it is. Nobody appeared angered by the message, people just seemed caught off guard. It's pretty entertaining when big businesses make harmless mistakes anyway.

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    Font - НВОМахHelp @HBOMaxHelp HBO max HELP 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. 5:21 AM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

    The real tea was stirred when @HBOMaxHelp finally explained the situation. They wrote that it was a mistake, which most people had already gathered, but they also included who made that mistake... the intern.

    This caused hundreds of messages to come flooding in, in an attempt to console that very intern. It was quite wholesome actually.

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    Font - Kevin Liao (Liāu ka-kî) @sleepy_dugong ... Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear intern, On my first day at my first ever coding job, I deleted the company's entire Dropbox. I thought l'd be fired but boss restored the folder from a backup and told my me that if I could have deleted everyone's work that would've been on the company, not me! 6:35 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter Web App
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    Font - JBD ヤナドガン @rakyll ... Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear intern, It's ok. I dropped a prod database when I was a senior engineer. These things happen more often than you might think. Building good systems is about having resilience against human mistakes. Because we, humans, always make mistakes.
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    Font - José Carlos Chávez @jcchavezs Replying to @rakyll and @HBOMaxHelp As an intern I dropped a table in a prod database. I decided to resign immediately, packed up my stuff and went to tell my boss. She was talking to the CEO of the company so got terrified and went back to my spot to find out connection expired before it could run. 8:51 AM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter Web App
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    Font - Daenney @daenney Replying to @HBOMaxHelp 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.
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    Font - Burke Holland @burkeholland Replying to @HBOMaxHelp As an actual hired employee I changed the last name of everyone at the company in the HR system to "Holland". A change which required them to restore the database from a backup. This was during my first week. 5:30 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Rae Pickett ... @RaeRoca Replying to @HBOMaxHelp 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. 4:40 PM · Jun 18, 2021 from Virginia, USA · Twitter for iPhone 156 Retweets 15 Quote Tweets 5,581 Likes
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    Font - becca @donotatmeok Replying to @HBOMaxHelp dear intern, one time i accidentally charged several thousand dollars to my celebrity bosses managers personal credit card 1:08 AM · Jun 19, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Hannah Holloway @hholloway2010 Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear Intern, In the first month of my new HR job with a major defense contractor, I sent out an email about shirt orders that included the division president and several corporate leaders. Title of email: Your Shit is in the HR Office - Please Pick Up by COB 9:56 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Dan Healey @StupidFeet76 Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Hi Intern- I used to work for a non-profit with a .org web address. I pulled up our website during an important meeting but accidentally typed .com. Turns out the .com rerouted to a porn site, which was shared with all the meeting attendees. Learned some lessons that day... 11:00 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Postcards4USA ... @postcards4USA Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear Intern, I once didn't recognize then-VP George HW Bush and almost didn't let him into a meeting...in the Cabinet Room. Of The White House. Where he worked. He was actually as gracious as HBO Max Help appears to be being...you'll be fine. 4:27 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for iPad
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    Font - Juneau @Jun34u_sec Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear intern, Once I clicked on my own phishing email Once I sent 1000 test alerts to 50 executives in 2 seconds Once I scope creeped so bad that we thought we were under actual attack ..i can go on 8:02 PM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter for Android
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    Font - Cher Scarlett ... @cherthedev Replying to @HBOMaxHelp Dear Intern, I fixed a 500 error at @Blizzard_Ent, and the result of fixing this 500 error was to leak the Blizzcon 2016 schedule. Much love <3 11:01 AM · Jun 18, 2021 · Twitter Web App 38 Retweets 2,649 Likes

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