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FYIFV (standing for "Fuck You, I'm Fully Vested") or FYIV〔(The Microsoft Lexicon ) (Ken Barnes)〕 is a piece of early Microsoft jargon that has become an urban legend: the claim that employees whose stock options were fully vested (that is, could be exercised) would occasionally wear T-shirts or buttons with the initials "FYIFV" to indicate they were sufficiently financially independent to 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 was 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.〔 == Origins of the phrase == Many Microsoft full-time employees were granted stock options at the start of their employment. The options vest gradually over four and a half years. An option allows the holder to buy the stock at a later date for the price at which the option was originally granted. Because Microsoft's stock price rose significantly between September 1986 and January 2000 and split 8 times in that period, an employee could buy the stock cheap and sell it at a considerable profit, thus reducing or removing their dependence on their Microsoft salary. Many stayed at Microsoft nevertheless because they enjoyed their work. Adam Barr, author of the book ''Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters'', tracked down a possible origin for the urban legend: Barr notes also that further options are granted each year, thus an employee can never be "fully vested." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FYIFV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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