Do you ever feel like murdering your boss?

06 March 2015 - 03:16 By Poppy Louw and Shenaaz Jamal
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Office equipment may appear harmless to the innocent eye, but you can use just about all of it to kill your boss - in a new computer game.

Created by Doodie.com's Tom Winkler, the former animator of The Simpsons, Whack Your Boss takes office anger management to a whole new level.

The objective? To "whack" your "boss", virtually of course, with anything from a pair of scissors to a ruler, coffee mug, wastepaper bin, keyboard, and even the door.

The player is challenged to find all 27 items to use on the animated boss and is scored on the number of items used.

The game starts with the animated boss telling the frustrated employee things like: "It has come to my attention that you are not measuring up", "You will need to stay late again, with no overtime", "You can't seem to do anything right" and "I'm going to have to write you up again".

Once you have heard enough, you click on the item to whack your boss - and beat him until the blood gushes out.

Whack completed, you can request a crime scene cleaner to sort out the "mess" and start all over again. This is before listening to a self-help recording reciting : "No when. No want. No worry."

The online game is available for download from R7.99, but the content rating for it is "high maturity". This means it is not for underage online users.

Anger management expert and psychologist André Duvenage has warned against the game .

"This computer game is inappropriate and a dangerous way to respond to anger because it is just a quick fix for the people using it and does not address the underlying problem," said Duvenage.

"There need to be constructive tools to deal with anger, and this cannot be done through the cyber domain."

Duvenage warned that people with certain personality types using the game to express their anger would eventually blur the lines between reality and imagination and could become a danger to themselves and society.

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