FYIFV

FYIFV (standing for "Fuck You, I'm Fully Vested") is a piece of Microsoft jargon that has become an urban legend: that employees whose stock options were fully vested (that is, could be used) would occasionally wear T-shirts or buttons with the initials "FYIFV" to indicate they were financially independent and thus could give their honest opinions and leave any time they wished.

In internal usage at Microsoft, it was meant metaphorically to describe intransigent co-workers. In press usage and popular culture, it is often used to imply a predatory business culture reaching even to the programmers.

Despite many third-hand reports of Microsoft employees wearing "FYIFV" buttons or shirts, there is only one report of an "actual" "FYIFV" T-shirt, worn on the wearer's last day at the company.]

The quote became more common as Microsoft's fortunes rose, used with the implication that alleged predatory business attitudes reached even to the programmers: []

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