I love our next story so much.
In the past week, this surveillance video
capturing a young woman doing a happy dance
after she left a job interview has been
viewed over 20 million times.
From Decatur, Georgia, please welcome Kallayah
and her new boss, Dakara.
Hi.
This is fantastic.
This is so fantastic.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
[INAUDIBLE]
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Just give me, like, two seconds, like, oh my God.
All right.
Are you ready now?
OK, all right.
So that video was so fantastic.
You were just happy because you had a positive interview.
It wasn't even-- you weren't even hired.
She said she wanted to hire you, but it wasn't a definite thing.
You walk outside, and you do this crazy happy dance
that you thought nobody saw.
You like looked around to see if anyone was even there.
Yes, I was looking around.
When I saw that nobody was watching,
I literally just broke out to the happy dance.
And I was like so excited and elated,
because even though she didn't even give me the shot
yet, I was still like, she finally,
like, [INAUDIBLE] going to happen to me,
like I'm going to get a job.
I'm going to get a job.
And I was very happy and elated.
[LAUGHS]
So, all right, Dakara, you're the manager at The Spot Sports
Bar and Grill.
That's the name of it?
Anybody want to go there?
You should.
All right.
So you interview Kallayah and you wanted to hire her why?
I saw myself in her.
I think I'll cry.
Oh, please don't 'cause I'm going to cry too.
You can cry.
No, I just saw myself in her 'cause
I know what it's like to be turned away from a job
'cause recently, I had a work somewhere in Georgia,
and I'm like I turned away from out here.
And they told me I can't return back
until I have put like some type of [INAUDIBLE] in it.
And I just quit.
I was like I don't want to stay here no more.
And I said, if I ever have the opportunity
to pass a job on to somebody else,
I would never turn them away.
And then when Kallayah came in, I was like, I like her.
She's great.
She made me laugh the entire time.
So she's amazing.
I love her.
So all right, so you did the happy dance because not only
were you about to get a job, but your life
has been a little bit rough, right?
Yeah, I was homeless for two years.
And prior to her, before this job interview,
I was going through a very hard time.
I didn't have any clothes.
I came in there with scarf on, because I
didn't have any gel to-- you know, any money to get any gel.
And I didn't have any sneakers or any flats
or anything like that.
So I came in slippers.
And I was hoping that she did not turn me away
because I needed this job, like I needed it.
And when she didn't turn me away,
she said, come on, let's go do the interview.
I looked at her, I was like, for real?
Like are you serious?
And she was like, yeah, come on.
And--
So you saw, obviously, she shows up in slippers,
and you're thinking, she needs a job.
Yeah, I'm not here to judge nobody.
My grandmother and my mother always
said never judge nobody 'cause you never know
what they're going through.
I was like, I'm just going to--
And so you saw on--
you go back to your desk and you see
on the surveillance camera what she's doing
and then the thing that went viral is you recording
the surveillance video going, oh my God, laughing at it,
and you posted it, and I mean, what, 20 million views?
Yeah, me and my friends, Alandra and Ilani, we was on TikTok.
I said, I'm about to post this video on TikTok.
They said, yeah, just post it.
Just post it.
And then we're up all night.
And I'm watching the views go up.
And I was like, yo, like this can't be happening right now.
And they said, well, you're going to wake up,
it's going to be at a million.
I was like, no, it's not.
And I went to sleep.
And I woke up and my phone is just ringing off the hook.
And I was like, whoa, like this is crazy.
I didn't expect any of this.
I just posted it just to post it.
And it just took off.
Yep, and then we called.
Yeah, you guys called our screen,
I was going to tell her, I was like, well, yo,
I've got a phone call from Ellen.
At first, for me, I didn't know, right?
I was like, no, this ain't it.
This ain't true.
And then she was like, I think, it was Miss Brady,
and she was like, I am from The Ellen Show,
I screamed to the top of my lungs,
I think my boyfriend thought I was dying.
[LAUGHS] So he was like, what is wrong with you?
I was like, don't worry about it, Ellen just called me,
I don't care what nobody say, I'm going to go.
OK, I gotta go.
I gotta go.
I know.
We said we'll Zoom with y'all, and you're like, nope,
we're getting on a plane.
[LAUGHTER] All right, we have to take a break.
We'll talk more with you after this.
What do you want people to learn from your story?
I want people to know like just because you're
going through a hard time doesn't
mean that you can give up.
You can still dance your way through life,
and still, act like nobody's watching.
And I promise you, somebody is going to watch you,
and you'll be OK.
That's right.
I just want people to know that never judge nobody,
because you don't even know what somebody is going through.
They could probably need a lot of help, and it could be you.
Yep, yep.
I mean, with what's going on in the world today,
it could be you next.
And that's really important to never judge.
Say the name of your-- it's The Spot Sports--
Yeah, we're The Spot Sports Bar and Grill
located in Decatur, Georgia.
In Decatur.
OK, well, we learned that you both want to go back to school,
and our friends at Shutterfly love to help and--
you're just both so inspiring.
So we want to give you something to have a happy dance about.
We want to give each of you a check for $15,000.
If you're in Decatur, Georgia, go check out The Spot Sports
Bar and Grill.