One has to wonder: with the deserved popularity of character-dolls of friends and colleagues in Manga, as shown here; how would people and bosses react to some fellow, or girl, turning up with ( charming, not insulting or voodoo ) crafted dolls identical to those colleagues, in say, an American workplace context...
^With how things are in modern day?, you'd be slandered with the usual Racist/Sexist/Whatever else terms, ousted as a creepy weirdo, and you'd have an attempt at cancelling you done online.