People are sharing their worst work cock-ups to make an intern feel better – 17 hilarious howlers

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Dear Intern, as a very young copywriter I once had to write a brochure about a prescription drug that “reduces mortality in patients,” but it turns out I actually wrote that it “reduces morality in patients” and nobody caught it until 50,000 were printed.https://t.co/HrMqHIXhg0

— Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) June 18, 2021

11.

Dear Intern,

When I was an intern I emailed the other 3 interns saying “I’m bored; is anyone doing anything interesting?”

Instead of going to every intern account it went to every account. Every staffer in every office of every Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/017HropALG

— National Security Counselors (@NatlSecCnslrs) June 18, 2021

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Dear intern, I once sent an email to 5k employees asking them to update their benefits but I didn’t bcc them so hundreds of ppl hit reply all and then hundreds more hit reply all to tell others not to reply all and it crashed our whole system email system. https://t.co/gE8BBjtv7v

— Jenny Lawson (@TheBloggess) June 18, 2021

13.

Dear Intern,

I once auto-populated a mass vet email from @morris_animal to list the constituents as their “dogs name” instead of their first name and it got the best email response ever. A mistake turned into a new marketing process when we sent mass emails.

— James Harper (@JHarperMedia) June 18, 2021

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Dear Intern,

It’s an email. At least you didn’t erase the entire Community Access TV station’s chyron graphics archive on accident.

Signed,
A Broadcast Engineer who once erased all the chyron graphics at a Community Access TV Station by accident when he was an intern.

— Mark “Noodles” Kewman (@mkewman) June 18, 2021

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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.

— José Carlos Chávez (@jcchavezs) June 18, 2021

16.

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.

❤️

— Burke Holland (@burkeholland) June 18, 2021

17.

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.

— JBD ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) June 18, 2021

To conclude …

Hope the intern knows we’re cheering for them, we’ve all been there 🙂

— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) June 18, 2021

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