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[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

Bio break.

I don’t think I have to elaborate on that one.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Thats not so much a corpo thing as a gamer thing IMO.

"AFK, Bio break" is much quicker to type.

[-] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Quicker than “brb, bathroom”?

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I never heard a gamer use "bio break" lol

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Uh. It’s been used for YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAARS in MMOs.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

^ usually just "brb bio" or "afk bio", or just "bio".

Its seriously old, like, "woot" or "LFG" levels of old.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Makes sense! I haven't played a real-time MMO since RuneScape was new! Haha

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

“AFK, Bio

This is all you needed to type. Kids are too lazy to type the rest.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

This is a gamer term. I've never heard it in a business environment. Even as a IT engineer.

[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Lucky you, it’s all over my company.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I’ve never heard it in a business environment. Even as a IT engineer.

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.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. Its unprofessional.
  2. Its gross. Saying something thats basically "gonna go take a dump" is unnecessary. Personally I don't give two shits, but not everyone is as easygoing as me. Best to keep a professional hat on at work.

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.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Huh. I literally only know this from the context of mmo games.

TIL where that is from

[-] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] bdot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

fuck. i hate this one the most.

just say “break.” let everyone else decide for themselves if it needs to be biological in nature.

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