Bob Cratchit
Bob Cratchit is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's *A Christmas Carol* (1843)—the underpaid, overworked clerk to the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge.
His name has become shorthand for a long-suffering employee enduring poor conditions with quiet dignity: Every office has its Bob Cratchit, shivering by the radiator while the boss cranks up the AC.
- Tiny TimSickly Victorian street urchin
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- quillFeather used for writing
- ledgerFinancial record book
- candleWax stick with wick
shilling · coal · coal scuttle · cold · poverty · Christmas · Christmas goose · goose · family · Dickens · Victorian · counting house · counting pennies · humble · meek · threadbare · wages · desk
- A Christmas CarolEbenezer Scrooge, Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Ghost of Christmas Past
- Fictional DadsHomer Simpson, Darth Vader, Mufasa, Fred Flintstone, George Jetson
- Christmas NamesSanta, Rudolph, Frosty, Scrooge, Blitzen
- DickensCharles Dickens, Dickens, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- holiday figuresSanta Claus, Santa, St. Nicholas, Easter Bunny, Frosty
Bob CratchitEbenezer Scrooge
employer · master · proprietor · capitalist · business owner
Bob CratchitEbenezer Scrooge
Scrooge · miser · skinflint · misanthrope · curmudgeon
Bob CratchitEbenezer Scrooge
exploiter · aristocrat · landed gentry · robber baron · plutocrat