Monica Lewinsky Offers Hilarious Advice To HBO Max Intern Who Mistakenly Sent Out Test Email

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\u2019re helping them through it.

— HBOMaxHelp (@HBOMaxHelp) 1623982888

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) 1624035052

Dear intern,\n \nIt\u2019s 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.

— JBD \u30e4\u30ca \u30c9\u30ac\u30f3 (@JBD \u30e4\u30ca \u30c9\u30ac\u30f3) 1623992473

Dear intern: as a rookie prosecutor, editing a complaint against a bank robber, I failed to notice that the rookie FBI agent had put the home addresses and phone numbers of all of the witnesses to the (scary white supremacist robber\u2019s) crime in the public affidavit, and filed it.

— FBIDidARICO!Hat (@FBIDidARICO!Hat) 1624129417

Dear Intern,\nI once didn\u2019t recognize then-VP George HW Bush and almost didn\u2019t let him into a meeting\u2026in the Cabinet Room. Of The White House. Where he worked. \nHe was actually as gracious as HBO Max Help appears to be being\u2026you\u2019ll be fine.

— \u034fPostcards4USA (@\u034fPostcards4USA) 1624022859

dear intern:\n\nit gets better. \n\n\n\nps. don\u2019t wear a beret for awhile, k?

— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@Monica Lewinsky (she/her)) 1624044194

Yes it does. Listen to her.https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1405969371621638147\u00a0\u2026

— InternAlly (@InternAlly) 1624271802

That\u2019s just about the funniest thing I\u2019ve seen in awhile.https://twitter.com/monicalewinsky/status/1405969371621638147\u00a0\u2026

— Eddy Torriente (@Eddy Torriente) 1624248804

It does. I cannot imagine the trauma Monica went through, but we all have our stories. And those stories make for good anecdotes when we start supporting our new generation of leaders.https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1405969371621638147\u00a0\u2026

— Shay Riker \u2022 Personal Account (@Shay Riker \u2022 Personal Account) 1624221776

I just absolutely love this womanhttps://twitter.com/monicalewinsky/status/1405969371621638147\u00a0\u2026

— Tamar Q Barbash (@Tamar Q Barbash) 1624154623

Dear Intern:\n\nOnce, when I was a junior copywriter, I applied to my dream job at @TheAtlantic and wrote \u201ccopyrighter\u201d on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Like, I misspelled the job I wanted, which was a job for good spellers. \n\nYou\u2019re doing great, okay?

— Angela Mayfield (@Angela Mayfield) 1624045974

Dear intern,\n\nI woke up to that email this morning and immediately thought, "oof - been there buddy." \n\nWe've all broken production! Besides, as a great boss once told me, if you never make mistakes you're not really trying. It's gonna be ok!pic.twitter.com/TSAunSFXu4

— Jaylyn (@Jaylyn) 1624041364

As an actual hired employee I changed the last name of everyone at the company in the HR system to \u201cHolland\u201d. A change which required them to restore the database from a backup. \n\nThis was during my first week.

— Burke Holland (@Burke Holland) 1624026604

Dear Intern: My first day on a job, I was in an elevator when a nice-looking man smiled and said, "Your face belongs on a cathedral." \n\nWithout missing a beat, I replied, "If comparing me to a gargoyle is the best pick-up line you've got, it needs work." \n\nYep, the CEO.

— Shelby Kent-Stewart \u2122 (@Shelby Kent-Stewart \u2122) 1624129828

Dear intern,\n\nAt least you didn\u2019t spin a studio camera 360\u00b0 while on live TV. Didn\u2019t get fired and I\u2019ve made my way to weekend anchor! Only goes up from here, my friend!pic.twitter.com/OVoNTFpccP

— Judd Baker (@Judd Baker) 1624067116