Learned a new bit of "bizspeak" today...

[gnomi]

..."Wifm," pronounced "Whiff-em."

What's
In it
For
Me?

As in, "The wifm for you is less time waiting for a response."

::sigh::

Comments

[tober.livejournal.com]

grrr indeed

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Stupid, useless coinages make me cranky.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

you can't just say "the benefit to you is..."? i mean, that sentence doesn't even make SENSE. and it sounds incredibly stupid.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

The guy must've said it about 5 times over the course of 45 minutes.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

he was clearly proud of his incomprehensible word. did anyone raise their hand and go "uh... excuse me, but what the fuck is 'wifm' and why do you keep saying it?"

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

He actually used it, defined it, and then continued to use it.

wifm

[magid.livejournal.com]

is a radio station, not English.

Re: wifm

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

On the Frequency Modulation dial, clearly.

"You're listening to WIFM, 95.2 FM!"

Re: wifm

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, at least he didn't use a complete acronym: wiifm looks like gaming radio.

[dpolicar]

right. because no standard English word with the same benefits exists.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I almost came to whinge about it to you, but then I figured you might've been in the NRC/RCs meeting.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

I was stuck in that one. Which actually went much better than the 7am ones.
Did "WIFM" come up in today's 7am meeting? Because I spaced out and missed it if it did. I spent a lot of the early meeting practicing writing left handed, but I was following the flow of content (It's new dude argueing with voice on the speakerphone...It's stll new dude argueing with voices on the speakerphone...It's...bah...).

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Actually, the meeting was the one that was the HR kickoff thingy. It was, thankfully, only 45 minutes long, rather than the 2 hours it had been scheduled for, but one of the two guys giving the presentation kept using WIFM.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

fun :( I think half my meeting wandered in and stole your cookies during our break.

[seborn.livejournal.com]

No, it didn't come up in any of the design review meetings.
I figured that they were all more fun than the other two, so I stayed put.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

You have a fascinating definition of "fun."

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Oh. That makes me feel quite ill, really.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

That's one way of looking at it...

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

You know, my brain keeps coming up with things that WIFM might stand for, and pretty much all of them should not be included on a page that you read at work. The G-rated versions include questions such as "Who is fondling me?" and "Who is the friggin moron?"