Quite recently, subscribers to an HBO Max mailing list received an e-mail that was rather odd from the online streaming service. While HBO Max clarified soon enough that it wasn’t a new show coming out soon, the mail caught the attention of fellow netizens.
Across America and a few in the UK, users received an email with the subject line “Integration Test Email #1″. The body of the mail read: “This template is used by integration tests only.”
HBO Max tweeted out an apology to its subscribers for the gaffe stating that it was the mistake of an intern as the memes and jokes went rife.
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. ❤️
— MaxHelp (@maxhelp) June 18, 2021
This mistake turned out to gain HBO Max quite many eyeballs with everyone sharing their stories when they were interns. And some of them are quite hilarious, to say the least! Known personalities also joined in the discussion and shared their goof-ups with everyone. The trend soon caught on and has every laughing to their wits, sharing the most relatable stories. Everyone is trying to show support to the intern who goofed up at HBO Max, showing their support and communicating that it definitely gets better with time. The hashtag, #DearIntern has gotten quite famous with everyone comforting the poor intern.
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. I was 37 years old.
— Caissie (@Caissie) 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
I forgot to mention that we worked in an open plan office, so I got to see the chaos play out in real time. It was glorious.
— aerin (@AerinChevyFord) June 18, 2021
HBO Intern, you are breathtaking! I mean it! Congrats on making your first big mistake. It's like a right of initiation for us developers
HT to @_workchronicles pic.twitter.com/8SsQNiXBBr— 👍 Charles C. Pustejovsky III (@CCPustejovsky) 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, 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
The mail went out around 9 pm when everyone started asking whether they had received it and jokes soon started circulating.
Integration Test Email #1.
Anyone else get this from HBO Max 🧐 pic.twitter.com/NuYAVvKjnI
— Eduardo Cuevas (@EduardoCuevas) June 18, 2021
What does it mean 🤣 pic.twitter.com/yCyjd74o61
— kara (@kara38855306) June 18, 2021
In all seriousness though hugs to the soul whose having a tough night because of this goof — I promise you’ll bounce back ❤️❤️ we’ve all made mistakes, this will make quite the story one day.
— Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac) June 18, 2021
“Integration Test Email #1” has always been my favorite Dylan closing track. pic.twitter.com/WrEScU5Cs2
— Larry Karaszewski (@Karaszewski) June 18, 2021
"Integration Test Email #1" has gotten HBO more views than anything else they've produced since Game of Thrones ended… pic.twitter.com/SBjYGvbFWu
— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) June 18, 2021
Have you ever faced any instances like this while interning at an organisation?
