Man wins the internet for hiring William Hung to let his ex-workmates know he is leaving the company

A man recently went viral on TikTok after he hired Hong Kong-born American motivational speaker William Hung to announce that he is leaving his workplace.

Chris Gonzalez, a 33-year-old man from California, hired Hung, 39, through his Cameo profile to create a video announcing his departure. The video was then shared online by Gonzales’ girlfriend, Joellen Lu, on TikTok on May 11.

The post has been viewed over 922,000 times as of this writing.

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The 31-second video shows Hung letting Gonzalez’s workmates at the time know that he would be putting in his notice. Hung then ended his message with an original song.

“Hi, everyone, this is William Hung. Christopher is going to put in the notice to leave the current job for a new job in two weeks,” Hung says in the recording. “He found a new job, but he'll miss all of you. You're all amazing, so don't give up creating the life you want."

Speaking to BuzzFeed, Lu said they were excited to see Gonzalez’s former workmates’ reactions to the custom video message, and that he received some private messages telling him that what he did was “epic.”

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“We were both working from home, and I was so excited to witness the reaction, knowing he dropped the '@here' [notifying everyone on Slack], and I decided to film the reactions and replies in real-time,” Lu said.

“Chris instantly started receiving direct Slack messages from his different coworkers congratulating him and saying it was an 'epic' way to go," she added.

In an interesting twist of fate, Gonzalez’s new co-workers had already seen the viral video, and some suspected that the new “Christopher” in their workplace might be the same person Hung was referring to in the clip.