When Diana Trinh was laid off from her corporate marketing job in tech, she found herself working for minimum wage at her local Applebee’s as a host.
In a video on TikTok filmed in 2023, Trinh had returned from her first in-person job since 2019. In the clip, her father stayed up late to greet her after her shift, enthusiastically filming and supporting her as she unpacked food she had brought home. The short, heartfelt moment has since been viewed over 401,000 times on TikTok as her father’s support and love melted hearts.
“My dad always supported me,” Trinh wrote in the video caption. She told Newsweek: “I didn’t get home until close to 11 p.m. that day, but I was so happy to see that he stayed up. I didn’t realize how excited he was until I turned up the volume on the video. It truly made me cry.”
Between 2023 and …