It was finally the interns’ last day. My colleagues and I took away their computers, disable their logins, gave them some sage advice about how they

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2021-05-20 17:30:04

It was finally the interns’ last day. My colleagues and I took away their computers, disable their logins, gave them some sage advice about how they wouldn’t be poor forever, and then gently pushed them out the door. Then came everyone’s favorite event of the year: intern review party! We broke out the libations and gathered around the projector to review some of the most hilarious bugs that the interns tried to sneak through code review during the course of the summer. Bill had just brought up Timmy’s particularly egregious lack of locking on a core data structure, and just as the room started to erupt into laughter, it happened.

Timmy had come back after realizing that he forgot his beloved ping pong paddle. His eagerness to join the party quickly turned to embarrassment and shame as he glanced at the projector. He grabbed his paddle and dashed out the door, leaving behind only a vow never to work with us again!

“How could this have happened?”, we asked ourselves. We aren’t bad people! We just wanted to relax, enjoy the conspicuously available ping pong table, and maybe pat ourselves on the back a little for stopping such hilarious bugs from getting into production! Besides, we revoked all of his access before he left. And that’s when we finally remembered:

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