Tesco worker wears suit and tie to announce to staff and customers in store that he's quitting... after bosses insisted on a FORMAL resignation

This is the hilarious moment a Tesco worker had his brother read out his resignation letter before handing it to his boss in the middle of the busy supermarket.

In a video shared on Reddit, Joe Simpson, 23, can be seen donning a black suit and dark-patterned tie while standing on a small white pedestal and brandishing a walking stick.

The now former employee, who said his job was to receive deliveries, captioned the comedy clip: 'After telling my work that I am leaving, they said I must make a formal resignation letter. So in response I went all out.'

The moment was captured at a branch in Tring, in the aptly named borough of Dacorum in Hertfordshire.  

Completing his somber look with a black face mask, Mr Simpson stands tall and upright while his brother reads out the letter on his behalf. 

Wearing a grey suit and purple tie, the brother removes the note from a black envelope, which was closed with a wax seal, and reads aloud: 'To whomever it may concern, I write this letter from a place of sorrow and regret.

'These six, long arduous years have caused me to grow quite weary.'

He adds: 'My knees have grown weak and the grease from my elbows has depleted.

'It is not for every man to accept large packages into their back door, nonetheless, it was my duty.

'I have wandered endless aisles, searching for sections incomplete, my gloves doth hold the sweat of many a 12-hour .

'But my shoulders carry the weight of the worker's burden.'

The 'announcer' then goes on to pay tributes to fellow colleagues, while blasting an ex-manager whose name 'will never be remembered'.

He says: 'To Chris, you are the father I never had.

The helper (pictured left), wearing a grey suit and purple tie, removes the letter from a sealed black envelope and reads aloud

The hilarious letter is read aloud in front of another worker, believed to be the resigning man's boss, while shoppers mill about in the background

In a video shared online, the worker snatches the envelope and letter once it has been read out and hands it to a man believed to be his boss

'To John, you recognised my true potential, a finer manager I could not request.

'My final thanks goes to Steve, the emperor of this fine establishment.

'You have raised the bar from your predecessor, infinitely. To say his name will be remembered is a grotesque overstatement.'

He concludes: 'I finish this letter with many thanks to my former comrades and I hereby submit my formal resignation.'

Mr Simpson shouts the word 'resignation' at the same time as his brother before snatching the letter and envelope and handing it over to his 'boss'. 

He then raises his fist and cries out: 'Viva la Tesco!'  

The comedy clip is said to have come about after the worker's boss demanded he make a 'formal' resignation if he wanted to quit. 

The worker told fellow Reddit users: 'I found it funny, I don't have much shame. I don't live in that town anymore and have a new better job.'

Mr Simpson told the Mail Online: 'I left the job because I had moved to another city to go to university and got another job while I was there. 

'About a week before this video was published I went to Tesco to tell them that I was resigning and they let me know that I needed to give them a formal resignation letter. 

'My brother (the person reading the letter) and I decided that it would be amusing if we wrote the letter to be as formal as possible, whilst also over exaggerating many of the aspects of the job. 

'We also didn't want the letter to come off as mean spirited, as I had a good relationship with the people in the store. 

'After a bit of discussion we thought that it may be even more formal if we dressed up in suits, put on over-the-top accents, then delivered the letter in person, with my brother acting as speaker.' 

The video has received thousands of comments since being shared on Sunday and has had 119,000 interactions. 

One Reddit user quipped: '"Viva la Tesco!" is my new war cry.' 

Another said: 'The little nods of approval, the rolling r's on the synchronised "rrresignation!", the stool, the cane, holding the letter at arms length. So many elements combine to make this a true masterpiece of our times.'