 Series writer B. J. Novak has said that the actual Creed Bratton is exactly like the character he plays, except that the real Creed is a good-hearted and likable person, while his fictional alter ego has a very dark side to him.His resourcefulness and duplicity are his defining traits along with his senile behavior and ignorance of the modern world.Creed Bratton is a deviant former hippie and a homeless man employed at the Scranton branch of paper distributor Dunder Mifflin as a quality assurance director.