--- title: Guy Dresses Up As Slack for Halloween 2018 description: This Slack Halloween costume will strike terror into the heart of any office worker used to using the chat and conversation program. canonical: https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-31T18:22:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:45.337Z og:title: Here's a Very Relatable Halloween Costume for Office Workers og:description: The Slack costume will strike terror into the heart of any office workers og:url: https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a Very Relatable Halloween Costume for Office Workers twitter:description: The Slack costume will strike terror into the heart of any office workers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Halloween Hero Pulls Off the Ultimate Costume to Frighten Office Workers > Sponsored content. 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Engelberg shared an uncanny version of the Slack interface as his [Halloween look](http://time.com/5440187/headless-girl-costume/) on Twitter, featuring a simple t-shirt colored in the diagonal check design of the Slack logo, with an instrumental accompaniment to make the sounds of the interface. It’s a personification of the Slack user experience. It’s the computer come to life. Those who prefer not to take their work home with them might relate, and get quite scared. As some of Engelberg’s commenters noted, the costume is “haunting,” “actually amazing” and “strangely entertaining.” And as Slack itself commended Engelberg in response to his post, “You win.” Because who needs overdone, normal scary Halloween looks when the tools of fear (and costume puns) are all around us already? > [](https://twitter.com/aengelbro/status/1057659128707829760) > [](https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1057666993338441734) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/"},"headline":"Halloween Hero Pulls Off the Ultimate Costume to Frighten Office Workers","datePublished":"2018-10-31T18:22:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:45.337Z","description":"With sound effects included","url":"https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","halloween","halloween 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5440674/slack-costume/","name":"Halloween Hero Pulls Off the Ultimate Costume to Frighten Office Workers"}}]}] ```