Bob knows obsolete programming languages and how to fix antiquated hardware because he's old enough to have paid two thousand dollars for a floppy disk drive. Which is great because the company doesn't like to buy new things, and he doesn't like to get used to them.
A man of many contradictions, he is laid-back yet grumpy, happy-go-lucky yet pessimistic, lazy yet tired. He's paranoid about conspiracies and privacy issues, though he personally wouldn't make an interesting target for any spy ever, being the most average everyman imaginable.
His relationship with his wife is straight out of a seventies sitcom, with hair curlers and meatloaf and tango lessons and sleeping on couches and everything.