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Dale Carcinogen
Dale Carcinogen is a witness auditor with the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB). He is rumored to be over 90 years old, but admits to having stopped counting after 100.
Dale began his career after a stint in the military, obtaining his first quality-related job as a QC inspector in 1954. At the time he was a strapping, handsome giant of a man. Over the years, he was consistently beaten down by his managers who blamed him for quality defects. He was consistently demoted, and became a Supply Chain Auditor in 1969, and then a Receiving Clerk in 1990. Finally, in 2015 he was fired but landed a job with ANAB where he could put his sullen, bitter, wholly-unqualified skills to use.
Dale is a chain-smoker, and is typically seen smoking at least three cigarettes at a time. He takes frequent “smoke breaks” during audits, pausing only to take another smoke break. He has a keen interest in finding a cure for “genital warts,” but has not admitted why.
1800’s Dale Carcinogen was seen smoking two pipes at a time, and wearing a bowler hat.
Dale cares little about actually doing his job or noting any violations of accreditation rules by Ray Battlesbee during witness audits. He openly admits to no longer caring about anything, but does occasionally put on an act for Alex Mendes by pretending to be “watching and listening to Ray carefully, at all times.” He typically falls asleep immediately thereafter.
THE AUDITOR creator Christopher Paris said that Dale is an amalgam of two real-life ANAB auditors, one who once showed up using a walker after back surgery and fell asleep due to his pain medication, and another who is notorious for interrupting audits to take cigarette breaks.
In a strip in 2023, Dale died suddenly in the middle of the audit. His brain was then transplanted into the Frankenstein-like auditor, Farrah Fawcett. Paris said the decision to kill off Dale was largely because he was bored with the character, who was “taking up space” in the frames, “just like real ANAB auditors.”
