This portion of the site is dedicated to the cookie inspectors of the world.
What is the job of a cookie inspector you might ask? What sort of training do they require for their demanding positions? To answer these and many more questions I have interviewed veteran cookie inspector Bill Bob, the chief cookie inspector of a cookie factory.
Q: Can you describe a typical day at work?
Q: What sort of training were you subject to before beginning the job?
Q: Are the hours demanding?
Q: What was the most memorable moment of your career?
Q: How do you control your urge to eat the cookies?
Q: What is competition like in this feild?
Q: Do you have any advice to young people interested in cookie inspecting?
This photo is of Bill Bob at work. As you can see, the cookie inspector is no ordinary job and requires concentration and keen senses.
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Uh, well let's see.
I wake up, put on my uniform and hairnet, and walk to the factory. As soon as I arrive at the factory I walk over to the conveyor belt, hang up my coat on my hook, and start inspecting the cookies. I am not permitted to touch the cookies unless I get permission to, so I inspect only by looking at them for the entire day as they come by on the conveyor belt. I work untill late at night, then I get my coat and walk home. As soon as I get home I go to sleep. When I am not at work my assistant takes my place.
Q: What got you interested in this career?
Hmmm... well my father was a cookie inspector. He could not afford to send me to school so I had no choice but to enter this feild. Some people say I am a failure in life, but I do not think that I am. I get to eat all the defective cookies!
After I got the job, my training was quite straight forward. I was required to memorize the appearance of a perfect cookie and the signs related to defective ones. I was put through a simulator as a final examination. In the simulator, I identified 100 percent of defective cookies.
Yes, they are. I work from 4:30 AM to 11:30 PM. You see, as chief cookie inspector, I am required to inspect cookies at least 19 hours a day.
That would have to be when I spotted three consecutive rows of defective cookies.
I sounded the alarm and production was halted at once. I was then given the signal by my boss to either discard or eat the defective cookies, I ate them, and production continued.
I try to think that when I spot a defective cookie, then I can eat it. My job is to protect the cookies leaving the facory and ensure that they are perfect. So, I would not dare to injure these perfect creations. To tell you the truth, I have never eaten a perfect cookie since I started the job.
The great thing about the feild of cookie inspecting is that there is no competition. No person has ever challenged my position as chief cookie inspector. My theory is that I am the sole person living in this area gifted with the concentration and mental aptitude required to inspect cookies.
Cookie inspecting is a very fascinating job, and, although it can get tedious, is rewarding when a defective cookie is spotted. This is because you are allowed to eat the defective cookies. The pay is not at all great, I make about $5 000 per year, but eating the defective cookies means I do not have to buy any other food and I can afford to rent an appartment. I have money left over to sleep on a bed of newspaper which I replace once every three months. Life is not at all that bad for me. I advise young people to go into this feild, it is very rewarding to maintain the quality reputation of a cookie factory. Furthermore, the more people that enter this feild, the higher competition for jobs will be. This would result in better, more thorough, cookie inspectors.
