On Call Happy Halloween, dear reader! The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day. To kick things off, we’ve twisted On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column about keeping computers alive despite the best efforts of zombie coworkers and demonic bosses, to bring tales of times tech support turned spooky.

Our first story comes from a reader we’ll Regomize as “Vlad,” who told us that he once worked on the audio-visual team at a large theme park.

“Every year we had a Halloween event that involved opening temporary attractions that featured a lot of special effects run by actors,” he told On Call, before explaining that “For us in the AV world, the term ‘Performer’ or ‘Actor’ conjures the same emotions our brothers in arms in IT think about when they hear ‘End User’.”

One Halloween,

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