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A homophobic message scrawled on an Edmonton student’s Valentine’s Day card at his workplace triggered outrage on social media Sunday.

Edmonton mother Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski took to Facebook late Saturday to decry the treatment of her son, Degas Sikorski, who works at the north Edmonton party supplies store Party City. Sikorski said her son arrived at work on Saturday night to find that a “gutless” co-worker had scrawled “Faggot, you are not getting shifts for a reason” on a Valentine’s Day card from his supervisor.

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“I am beyond livid,” she wrote. “This is definitely a hate message.”

Sikorski said her son has been working at Party City for the past three years to put himself through university.

The post was soon shared online by Edmonton social media personality Kathleen Smith, prompting a massive backlash against the company and widespread support for the Sikorski family. Party City became a nationally trending Twitter topic Sunday afternoon.