Applied through Hasbro.com—got rejected. Applied and landed an interview through a temp agency. So, I submitted my I Rhyme Like Dr. Seuss children’s poetry, tossed on my I Have a Way with Words Scrabble tee—just so the hiring manager could hate on me.

I wholeheartedly believe most get off on slamming the door in my face because they wish they could do what I do. So much so that there was a writer who took part in the interview, and I got the chance to view her portfolio afterward.

How that writer works at Hasbro is beyond me! She had a LEGO campaign in her portfolio, and the only thing it had going for it was that it was coherent.

Shortly thereafter, Hasbro got on the “it’s okay to hack off children’s body parts” movement. 

In lieu of them stripping a toy of its gender identity, I wrote and designed this, laminated it and then tossed it in the mail for the world to see.