Dude advertises his mixtape on Wendy's sign, promptly gets fired

Mike Barz is an artist from Belleville, Illinois, who was employed at a local Wendy's.

That is, until he took advantage of the restaurant's reader board sign to promote his mixtape.

Barz arranged the letters to read, "Download Mike Barz Mixtape." He posted a photo of the sign on Facebook with the caption, "Sooo, yeah im fired 😢😂💯."

If you feel so compelled to follow the sign's instructions, Barz' music is available on SoundCloud.

UPDATE: Oct. 19, 2016, 8 p.m. EDT Mike Barz just responded to Mashable's request for comment.

I work at Wendy's and that sign I put up was 100% real. However I wasn't terminated for my actions. To answer your question, sometimes in life your dreams will drive you to the extremes beyond this world. My mixtape downloads were not doing the numbers as expected, so in order to reach my goal I knew I had to do something absurd and of the unthinkable. After I noticed it started going viral getting 100 likes within the first 10 minutes, I knew from that point on my plan had worked.

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