Microsoft tried to speak to their young interns “in their language”... but the message only prompted embarrassment.
"Kim" from Microsoft’s recruitment team sent out an e-mail invitation to an office party, assuming she was imitating the language used by millennials. But once the cringe-worthy result was posted online, it started spreading through internet.
The mail begins with the words: "Hey bae intern! <3", and only gets worse from there. Bae is short from the word babe, commonly used as someone’s boyfriend or girlfriend, or just for something cool or awesome.
The company offers the interns "hella noms" and "lots of dranks", which refer to multiple choices of food and a variety of drinks. And if that is not alluring enough for the "baes", they’re saying "hell yes to getting lit on a Monday night," meaning drinking on a weeknight.
The unusual corporate correspondence was posted on Twitter and gathered thousands of retweets and likes.
Microsoft quickly issued an apology noting that “the eemail was poorly worded and not in keeping with our values as a company.”
The company promised to investigate what happened and to take “appropriate steps” to address it, according to the statement. By then the e-mail went viral on social media.