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Bio break.
I don’t think I have to elaborate on that one.
This is a gamer term. I've never heard it in a business environment. Even as a IT engineer.
Lucky you, it’s all over my company.
My friend manages a team of engineers and TAMs for massive companies that do stuff like make airplanes and manage phone networks and you know the names. They specifically produce a toolsuite and rent out pro-serv nerds to go to mammoth DCs and show people where they fucked up their cabling and double the throughput. Like, SO nerdy.
'bio break' is used a few times a day.
I did use it at work once and a single "Dude TMI" was all it took for me to stop. Online playing an MMO as a group is casual and often used as a trigger for a group break.
At work I just say "going to step away for a bit" and that's all that's needed.
Def all over the business world. It's more polite than saying "okay, let's have a 5 minute break from this meeting so everyone can piss and get some more coffee"
I like it because it's so vague.
A nap is pretty biological! And nobody will ask why your bio break was an hour long.
Thats not so much a corpo thing as a gamer thing IMO.
"AFK, Bio break" is much quicker to type.
Quicker than “brb, bathroom”?
“brb”
I never heard a gamer use "bio break" lol
Uh. It’s been used for YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAARS in MMOs.
^ usually just "brb bio" or "afk bio", or just "bio".
Its seriously old, like, "woot" or "LFG" levels of old.
Makes sense! I haven't played a real-time MMO since RuneScape was new! Haha
Maybe it's an American thing, because give never heard it used on European servers
This is all you needed to type. Kids are too lazy to type the rest.
I like “piss” and my char just stops moving
Yeah, hate this. To everyone saying it's not corporate: or certainly is. I did B2B work for around a hundred corps through the one I worked at and I heard it at probably 70% of them.
It's just the company trying to control literally every part of your life. Like who gives a shit what I do on my break? That, and you can't get an "extra" break later saying you have to pee.
Huh. I literally only know this from the context of mmo games.
TIL where that is from
I work at a school and that one gets used sometimes. A lady that helps us develop programming said it quite often and my colleagues picked it up, I don’t use it myself.
fuck. i hate this one the most.
just say “break.” let everyone else decide for themselves if it needs to be biological in nature.
My friend uses that all the time.
It means a pee break, a tea break, sometimes a 'walk rover' break. When meetings cross that 44-min mark, it's break time.
I heard teachers use that term. 🤷♂️
I don’t use that, I usually just say I’m going to go grab some water but it’s better than saying “brb ima go take a wicked piss”. That being said, I’d respect the hell out of anyone who said that
I always used "gotta go drain the lizard."