Tom Grennell is just a regular guy, working as a cashier at Target. Like a lot of 20-year-olds, outside of work, Grennell routinely posts funny videos to his YouTube channel , and he writes about his life and shares photos on Tumblr . So it wasn't out of the ordinary when, last week, Grennell posted a diary of sorts , which documented little events that occurred over the course of his first week of work at Target. What was out of the ordinary, though, was the reaction he got.Grennell's post first went viral on Imgur , and now, people all over the internet are sharing and clicking and commenting. Something about his witty observations of the people and situations he encountered at his seemingly dull day job resonated with people. We talked to the Target guy himself to find out how much of it was real, how people are reacting, and what it feels like to have the internet completely losing it over this thing he wrote."I like to share funny things with my followers on Tumblr, so I decided to just share one day's events there. I thought I'd had a pretty funny day and wanted to make other people smile from it.""It's actually 100% real! All of these events happened exactly as they did on the day they were posted. I had a lot of ideas for funny bits to add on, but I decided I wanted to keep it entirely genuine and tell nothing but the truth. I think my perspective definitely made the more mundane ones seem more interesting than they normally would have been, but everything happened exactly as written.""It was all through my followers actually; I would have been entirely oblivious without them. First, someone told me that it had gotten big on Imgur, so I took a look at that and was shocked by the numbers, and the comments were all so positive. Then the next day, I got a link to your article. It absolutely blew my mind, and I'm still having trouble processing everything that's happening. All I wanted was a part-time job, and now I got all this.""I was at Target today! It was honestly more stressful and surreal than anything. I got a tweet last night from someone saying they enjoyed it and shared the article with some people from corporate on Facebook...so that was terrifying. I was convinced every time one of the leaders looked my way that they would come over and tell me I was fired for going viral. But that's also just my anxiety talking.""As far as I'm aware, none of them have.""I don't know if I'd go so far as 'famous,' but I'm not really having any experiences like that. I'm getting lots of messages from some really nice people saying I'm funny, asking for more updates, or telling me to write a book or something, but aside from that, the majority of my experience with this has been me and my friends questioning how it ever came to this.""If I had to guess, I think it's how I described these events. I think that people are liking that I'm keeping a very positive outlook in what a lot of people would consider a lackluster job field, and I'm taking even the most mundane details and turning them into something exciting and interesting. If I had to label it, I'd say, maybe, 'comedic realism'? I don't really know how to describe it, but there seems to be a quality to the stories that a lot of people enjoy.""I think the one thing that this entire experience has taught me that I would like others to take away is that even the most seemingly boring and monotonous of things can be made exciting and cheerful if you just look for the positive sides. Perspective is key in everything!"If you haven't yet seen Grennell's account of his first week at Target, take a look below. It's a pretty great way to start the week.