Cooper Costello

**Cooper Costello** is a character who works in Grumbel's. He is shown to not particularly care about his job. While he works hard at times, he is also shown to play around. Cooper has been known to be the most effected by the variability of hours when they get cut. He applied to work at the local Gas-We-Got after his hours got split in half and he was almost fired. He was almost promoted to manager though he quit later

He has been know to goof off quite a bit. For example, he maintains a roof-top lounge, strange contests like "wreath-carrying records", and, most commonly, his box structures.

Cooper takes his job seriously, though he does tend to ignore regulations in favor of efficiency, such as ignoring the ladders and refusing to use equipent. In an effort to keep the stockroom empty, he has been known to break product in order to comply with policy.

He creates box sculptures out of the shipment, often coming up with philosophical, thought-provoking sculptures.

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Cooper drives to work in a run down van that he uses in the winter, and a scooter in the summer. The van eventually met it's end after completely dying and his scooter was stolen shortly after .

The stockroom supervisor position was originally hidden from him by Stuart Suchet, in an effort to wait for Cooper to leave to promote a new supervisor. Despite this, Marla discovered the ruse, and promoted Cooper shortly after. He was given the responsibility of interviewing future stockroom employees.

After his promotion, he has shown to take the job more seriously to an extent. While still messing around, he does admit his wrongdoings.

He has a long-running friendship with Warren, the mall security guard.

Cooper has had a long-standing crush on his coworker, Val Williams. The two started dating and eventually moved in together after a vacation.

## Trivia

* He used to work at Office Shack, the electronics store, and at the flea market selling cubic zirconia rings
* He is known to play video games, enjoys X-men, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead and Spiderman
* He is shown to be slightly petty, rigging the store's secret Santa event.
* He enjoys the job for "fringe benefits", such as using old store fixtures during the remodel to decorate his apartment.
* He developed a taste for the convenience store cheeseburgers.
* He suffers from nightmares
* He has size 9 shoes.
* He won $5,000 on a scratch ticket.
* He is known to be obsessed with the store's costume contest.

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