Angry Retail Guy- Scott Seiss, Why Is Ikea Employee Tiktok Trending on Internet?
Seiss, a 27-year-old Essex native and University of Maryland Baltimore County graduate, left the region and his job at Ikea in April 2019 and moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey, to pursue a career in comedy.
Ironically, Seiss’ hilarious portrayal of a disgruntled Ikea employee might just aid at the beginning of his comedic career. Seiss imitates customers and mocks their complaints in several videos that were uploaded to TikTok and quickly spread across the internet. He is wearing an old Ikea lanyard around his neck.
To test them out on his wife, Amanda, who shared her retail experience working at White Marsh Mall, he started filming the Ikea videos in February.
The 21 Ikea employee videos created by Seiss have gained hundreds of millions of views on TikTok alone, not to mention more on Twitter and Youtube.
Celebrities like Peyton Reed, the director of “Ant-Man,” are among his newfound admirers. The videos were shared by comedian Patton Oswalt, who wrote that he couldn’t stop watching them. Lebron James, a basketball legend, shared the videos on Twitter while joking that he was visibly moved to tears.
