It’s been almost a year since I was a single ply away from working with Dude Wipes.
I had just entered the job hunt market and logged onto LinkedIn at 8 in the morning to see one of my dream roles was just published, and it wasn’t an April Fool’s Prank. Dude Wipes was expanding their marketing department.
I hit the apply button faster than I think I’ve ever done anything in my life.
I was ecstatic, I was also in feral mode x 1000000 because I knew I needed the most unhinged cover letter if I expected even a sliver of a chance. I got to work writing the most nonsensical fever dream cover letter and then I held my breath and hit send.
I didn’t hear anything for a while and tried to remind myself to be patient and then tried reverse psychology telling myself there’s no way they read my letter and they probably already hired someone for the role.
Then I got the first email from Tyler Qahhaar, HR Dude. I know looking back in that first minute I probably looked like those kids on Tik Tok opening up their college letters to see if they got accepted to Harvard or see if community college is in their future.
It was a simple email just asking for my availability to interview and yet I feel like it was a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s factory. I knew the second I submitted my time what I was going to do for my interview.
Meet my bathroom. Yes this is real, yes this is what I doo with adult money and yes this was my wall well before the interview. You can ask my family and friends who have seen’t it with their own eyes.
I knew I was going to interview from my bathroom because how much more on brand can you get, and also that wall is work of shart.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and it’s game time. I’m getting on zoom with Tyler.
The second my camera starts and he sees me in my Dude Wipes hat (more on that in a minute) and my wall and then realizes I’m in fact sitting on my toilet (I’m fully clothed you weirdos) he absolutely loses it laughing and has the biggest smile on his face.
He immediately asked if he could take a picture that was then put in the company group chat. It threw him off guard. He needed a minute to stop laughing. It was iconic AF and I knew I nailed the first impression. Unlike Toby from the office, Tyler was officially the coolest HR person I’d ever met. His personality matched the experience you expect to get at Dude Wipes.
After the call wrapped I hopped on LinkedIn to see that he had just posted about the experience and the comments did not disappoint. I only found it funny that so many people assumed it was a guy.
I waited and waited and then heard back that I was moving on to the next round with about 12 other people. We had the assignment round which was so fun. I got to pitch things like a ‘Pootnership’ with Yung Gravy, memes galore and more. I pushed send and then waited some more.
I ended up getting really close and in the top 3 (or they gas lit me) and ultimately someone else flushed me out and won the role of a lifetime. I hope he’s having the time of his life. It still to me is the second greatest experience of my career. I’d say it was #1 but something feels so right about it being #2.
And this wasn’t my first run in with Dude Wipes. I first started supporting the brand a while back when my little dude put me onto it one day when I let him pick out the wipes. Sean, #1 Dude, and I connected on LinkedIn then and he sent our dude his first ever PR package. Let me tell you that kid flexed on his classmates for the rest of the year and slept in the hat for 3 months. For us, it really is a lifestyle.
Overall the whole experience was a 10/10. You’re treated like you matter, the company culture is exactly what you see online and the team is the absolute coolest. Do I cry every night thinking about what could’ve been? Ask my therapist.
But on another note, while I was interviewing with them, I was also being considered for a Social Media Director role for another global brand in the humor space and I can tell you that experience was a 1/10. Why? Because not every brand is exactly what you see online.
I had set up myself or so I thought the same way. I wrote an unbelievably clever cover letter. I got on the horn with their HR and she was so funny and great and saw my creativity and knew I’d crush the role and then I met their VP of Marketing and I knew it was going nowhere.
The first thing I was asked was “I mean do you get our humor”. It was as if they hadn’t taken the time to read my cover letter or even look at my LinkedIn. I had such a sour taste in my mouth, I was so disappointed, not for not being hired but as a marketer with so much passion for humor, I saw behind the curtain and Oz was a dud.
And I don’t want to hear the bullsh!t excuse either that “he was a vp, he’s more removed.” I met Sean from Dude Wipes last year at Expo West and we had only chatted a few times from my little dude’s experience but he knew exactly who I was and was so hype telling someone there about the things I had sent to him before.
He walks the walk, and honestly? That’s what every brand should be doing in 2025.
This space is too loud, too saturated, and too fake for you to pretend you’re something you’re not. Consumers feel it. Creators feel it. And employees hate it.
I learned that your weirdness is not a liability. It’s your algorithmic advantage. Your personality is a growth strategy. Your creativity is a currency. And your branded bathroom wall? Honestly, it’s marketing architecture at this point.
And listen-I didn’t get either job.
But what I did get was proof that when you show up fully as yourself, even if that self is wearing a branded hat while sitting on a porcelain throne, you will eventually match with a brand that doesn’t just get you…
They’ll celebrate you.
You are not “too much.” You are marketing gold for the right team.
Embrace your authenticity and weirdness.
Be the walking fever dream.
Be the PowerPoint with sound effects.
Be the bathroom wall that makes HR laugh so hard they forget protocol.
Be the reason someone goes, “Wait, I love this chaos.”
Because one day, someone will look at your weird and say “we need that.”
Until then, keep yappin’.
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