Garen B:

BStayer:

kuzi16:

Garen B:

I second that. I'm actually a bit ashamed of how badly our generation's social skills have become because of the internet.

i actually heard a server in my restaurant say "BRB" to someone.
i was amazed.

Were they speaking to a fellow worker or to a customer?

Should it matter? I'm just hoping that we don't get to a point where L33t speech is going to be taught as an actual language.

To a restaurant owner/manager, yes, it most absolutely would matter. Obviously this isn't a way to speak to someone and is indicative of our socially inept and rather techno dependant culture. My point was that if this was to a customer, then Kuzi very well may have pulled this waiter to the side and had a little chat with the person. It would be rather crude to speak to a customer in such a fashion. However, if it's just to a fellow worker, then the ridiculousness of it is all there is to this story then.