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A man has gone viral for a second time after the moment he quit with the help of a marching band resurfaced online.
Joey DeFrancesco decided to skip the usual email of resignation route and instead enlisted his marching band to announce his departure from his unhappy job.
DeFrancesco documented the moment he told his boss “I quit” and uploaded it to YouTube in 2011. Now, in 2023, the internet is doing what the internet does and recirculating on TikTok once more.
Quitting the job with the help of a marching band
It’s unconventional, but DeFrancesco gained huge online fame when he made the decision to quit via marching band. “They treat us like s**t,” he told the camera at the start of the video. “I’m going to go and quit right now with the help of my bandmates.”
With his fellow members of What Cheer? Brigade, DeFrancesco entered the hotel through the side entrance. After finding the boss, he told them to leave. DeFrancesco responds by handing him his resignation letter and telling him “I quit.”
The band instantly began, like a movie soundtrack, and played loudly as DeFranco walked away smiling widely.
In 2011, the epic moment went hugely viral and currently has 9 million views on YouTube – that was a lot at the time.
The back story behind the video
DeFrancesco told HuffPost at the time that issues between workers and management had been a “big drawn-out war” and that he wanted to get “one last shot at them.”
“I hated them and they hated me,” he told the outlet.
The resignation came after a long fight from workers to unionize. Workers voted to join a union just over a year before the video, which resulted in some benefits but also strained relations with management.
Scheduling issues were a huge part of the decision, with workers telling media they were made to work late shifts only to return to open just a few hours later. DeFrancesco told HuffPost his loss of shifts after unionizing was one of the main reasons he decided to quit.
TikTok users have been loving the epic resignation
After being shared to TikTok by popular meme video account @laughhard__ on October 15, the video was seen by millions more people. As it stands, the TikTok post has 930k likes.
“Legend says the boss still hears the band’s music in the background,” joked one user.
“The level of petty I aspire to be,” added another.
“You must include this on your resume,” reads one comment. “It shows creativity, initiative and dedication to seeing a project through to the end. Bravo.”
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