MFYOYO (as is "See You Later MFYOYO") - <*My Friend*, You're On Your Own>
Of course there is another little term one could substitute for the "MF" part of MFYOYO. I have seen this used by a few folks shortly after they were asked to render an opinion, and the askee either refuted the opinion, or a prospect decided to try to "do something on their own" that they were not qualified to do. It is kind of crude, and reflects an attitude toward prospects in the market that I do not tend to hold. Under my "Kinder, Gentler" way of doing business I try to look at such matters as a prospect or client just not yet understanding the gravity of what they are up against, hence I did not do as good a job of pointing out the magnitude of what they are about to get themselves into. But, at times I do run into situations that become a kind of techie "Unpardonable Sin", where I can't help a client or prospect because they simply refuse to listen to my recommendations or warnings. So I have no choice but to let them fall flat on their face, and subjectively be ready to help scoop them up afterward - for a nominal fee of course. The most recent example of a See You Later MFYOYO moment was when a prospective dealership client decided to go out on their own and use Excel to manage their DoNotCall list. Well, the phone numbers in their 5 selected Area Codes was over 3.8 million records, and when I told them Excel simply could not handle that many records they plowed ahead anyway. When they found that indeed Excel failed to yield the results needed they moved to Access. That too failed to do what they needed (little wonder - over a network with multiple concurrent users, horrible performance). So that was a double MFYOYO situation. They kept calling for "more advice", free advice, and I kept telling them my VFP based solution would certainly do the job for them, and more - but they wanted something for free and I was not about to hand over the Keys To Gil's Evil Kingdom for free (they asked for a "sample" of my code so they could "better understand what I was doing"). I told them the shareholders of the corporation could never agree to such a request (me 50%, Lynda 50%). AFAIK they are still On Their Own, and I do not plan to call them proactively to bail them out. I do not need the grief. I figure if they are that bull-headed this early in the game, and think I am so stupid as to hand over my hard earned Source Code for their direct benefit with Zero compensation, they will always be pushing against me. I have clients who appreciate my efforts that are easy to work with, and an abusive group like that would simply consume time I could be using to help out "friendlies". Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Hill > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 4:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF} Acronyms - was Re: SP2 Fixes - Light at the end of the > tunnel > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Brian Abbott > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm, I assumed (wrongly, obviously) that AIUI was a WKA (well known > > acronym). > > > > Just for interest, who does / doesn't know these: > > > > AIUI - as I understand it > > AKA - also known as > > IMO - in my opinion > > IOW - in other words > > IMHO - in my humble opinion > > AFAIK - as far as I know > > AFAIR - as far as I recall > > ATM - at the moment > > BTW - by the way > > FWIW - for what it's worth > > YMMV - your mileage may vary > > IIRC - if I recall correctly > > HTH - hope this helps > > LOL - laugh out loud > > ROFLMAO - roll on the floor laughing my ass off > > <gd&r> - grin duck and run > > > > All these are ones I tend to use out of the scores out there - and I'd > > assumed that they were common currency. Maybe their use is dying out? > > IIRC many of these originated with Usenet, which seems to be far less > popular that it was in the past. In fact many IT 'professionals' have > never even heard of it even though it's still a great resource. > > -- > Paul > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
