Mom leaves funny post-it notes in Walmart to cheer up overworked employees, receives lots of responses.

Working at Walmart is always a high stress job. Most employees are grossly underpaid and overworked with very little room for negotiation or recourse, and the stores notoriously attract some of the weirdest and most frustrating customers on earth.

The struggles of working there have increased exponentially the past month as coronavirus has spread, and grocery stores remain one of the few essential businesses open. Because of shelter-in-place orders, many people have been rushing to their local stores to stock up on food and supplies for weeks (some even longer), while employees fight to get hazard pay and proper protection from the virus.

In a creative attempt to cheer up Walmart employees and show her appreciation for their hard underappreciated work, the photographer and mother-of-five Amy Cook left post-it notes around her local store.