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This past weekend Charles and I were at a book store after seeing a movie (we saw Knowing, I don’t recommend it) and I found a book full of useless information. Well, I’d disagree that it was all *useless*, but that’s beside the point. One of the entries was something about how, in some companies in Japan, it is usual for workers to dress up a dummy to look like their manager and then beat the effigy with sticks. Apparently this increases morale and efficiency.

This story popped into my head while I was at work yesterday. My boss looks a *lot* like Sylar from Heroes, so it wouldn’t be hard to find a large cardboard cut-out of him, but my boss isn’t the cause of my frustrations at work (one couldn’t hope for a cooler boss!). My frustrations are mostly with my work computer, specifically the crazy things the scanning software does sometimes. I won’t get into them, but anyone who has worked with any software ever can probably identify with how frustrating it can be!

On my commute home yesterday a Dilbert comic strip, running along the same lines, popped into my head. Given that it took me four hours of searching through the dilbert.com archives to find it, I’m not sure how I remembered it, exactly. Basically, Dilbert had a doll that looked like his boss sitting on top of his computer, and he’d smack it whenever the Pointy Haired Boss annoyed him. Again, my boss isn’t the problem, it’s the program!

Then it hit me! I needed an Abuse Cube. Something that would represent the software, with a different issue pictured on each side.

I started working on it as soon as I got home.

Take THAT!

More pictures of the cube and some motifs I received from one of my swap partners under the cut.

Before punching it:

Another angle:

Camera missing error!

More pictures here.

I finished making this at work today and showed it to a couple of co-workers. After telling them what it was for, I had to tear it away; I needed to take pictures for the blog before we let loose on it!

In other news, here are the motifs I received from MareMare in the Amazing Crochet Motif Swap (thumbnails are click-able)

Thank you MareMare, they’re beautiful!
(Please forgive how some of them seem a bit scrunched; the only spot of sunshine I could get today was on the road, and I was dodging cars that were driving on the wrong side. *shakes a fist*)