Quality Control

The Quality Control Department, or QC. is one of the seven departments within Dulcet Laeta.

Description
Quality Control are employed to inspect and grade candy within the factory. This includes tasting, measuring, weighing, and visually evaluting candy from batches intended for mass production.

Alongside evaluating existing products, QC are also tasked with reviewing new creations by the Concoctionists. This includes curbing outlandish ideas and dealing with the occasional prank product.

All that a quality control employee needs is an eye for quality and a working set of taste buds. As such, it tends to be the most varied department in terms of employee skill and personality. A tolerance for stomaching bad ideas is very much key, though, and QC can be seen as a more uptight and bookish department than some of the others.

QC often works with the Business and Concoctionists departments, and usually clocks in at 8am alongside CC.

Office
The Quality Control workspace is on the second floor of the factory, located next to the Manager's Room and the Break Room. QC employees tend to work from clipboards and paperwork, gaining more high-tech Inspection equiptment at higher promotional levels.

Workstation Upgrades
As employees earn promotions, they gain access to the following privileges:


 * Level 1: Custom Clipboard
 * A basic clipboard for keeping track of documents and reports, offered in the color of your choice. Decorations optional.
 * Level 2: Inspection Tablet
 * The sister to the concoctionists' design tablet. Contains ingredient information and references at a glance. No more shuffling through books!
 * Level 3: Weighing Table
 * A metal table. Place your desired item on the rings embedded into the table and receive a reading within seconds, no scales required.
 * Level 4: Inspection Wand
 * A high-tech prototype. This scanning wand can extract information such as weight and ingredient density from a desired concoction with just a wave.
 * Level 5: Commemorative Golden Pen
 * A highly-valued status reward among the Quality Control department members! Engraved with Sweet's signature.
 * Assistants: Quality Archive Access
 * Access to all records of every concoction to ever pass the Dulcet Laeta inspection tables.

History
Myron Pfeffer was promoted to manager an unclear amount of time before current events. It is unknown who held the position previously.

The current assistants (Anna & Roku) were both promoted to their positions in December of 2017.

Department Wars
Since roughly October of 2017, The Concoctionist and Quality Control departments have been engaging in a 'war', usually consisting of a back and forth of pranks and rejections. What started as a cold war would eventually develop into food fights and often enlisting the help of Engineering and Business on opposing sides. Major players in the war usually consist of Lola Berry and Kisami Stella on one side, and Anna Perelly and Makoto Fen on the other.

In May of 2018, the second major battle of the ongoing Department war was sparked. CC teamed up with Engineering and escalated the tension into a food fight with the aid of a Cupcake Machine gun. A truce was called after Lola and Anna bonded over their affinity for cats, and the Cupcake Machine Gun was dismantled.

In December of 2018, the third major Department War took place, lasting approximately 4 days. Started by a soured Anna hanging posters about rules and conduct all over the factory, and fueled by further crystal pranks thanks to a soured  Riley. This battle was personally ended by Security before the reconstructed Cupcake gun could be put into use.

Trivia

 * The first department to pass the 10 employee mark.