@kingzehn, a well-known TikToker, is facing controversy as a video posted to his channel went viral for the deliberate and cruel pranking of several Walmart employees.
The videos showed him donning a suit and approaching the anxious employees to tell them they'd been "let go."
"Can I check with my team lead first?" most of the anxious employees immediately asked. When they found out it was just a prank, hardly any of them laughed.
Immediately, people responded that this kind of joke wasn't funny at all—it was closer to psychological torture than anything else.
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After the revelation that he was joking, most workers shared that they were completely panicked.
"This is kind of random, having a guy come up saying that they have to let me go, you know?" said one of the workers. The look on his face when it was revealed as a joke was also something else.
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People's objections stemmed from the fact that the year has seen the biggest labor re-examination in the past 100 years. So when people are so desperate to be working at a minimum wage job such as Walmart, that is an extreme state.
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The original poster of the video has not responded to any of the backlash, but instead continues to pull pranks.
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