This daily exercise in transforming potential emails into a verbal marathon leaves us all wondering if our company invested in time-travel technology.
T2 (Tier 2 meeting)
While you wont find this person in the phone tool, this oldest fart thought a door would make a good desk.
Jeff Bezos
We produced 43 of these in 2024, named for a feathered visitor you might spot on a snow-covered branch in classic winter holiday scenes.
Cardinal
TASRS
Tote Automated Storage and Retrieval System
If this colleague's camera goes off mid-meeting, they've likely picked up one of their many desk ornaments; while most struggle with 3x3, this cubing virtuoso tackles the dreaded 6x6 faster than you can say 'algorithm'.
Ross
Every 90 days, we hit the pause button on our business rollercoaster for this deep dive into our recent peaks, valleys, and everything on the track in between.
QBR (Quarterly Business Review)
While others debate the good old days, this PE team member is still trying to remember everyone's name and figure out all the inside jokes(shortest tenure).
Donald Sung
We've produced 53 of these, sharing a name with a small bird that's unexpectedly connected to a fictional Caribbean treasure hunter's nickname
Sparrow
VCPU
Variable Cost Per Unit
The deployment team's secret weapon for luring this problem-solving guru onto their projects? A detailed itinerary of each city's finest bakeries and dessert hotspots.
Madhura
When we need to see beyond the horizon, this crystal ball of a planning tool helps us strategize our path forward for 36 months.
3YP (3-Year Plan)
This PE team member could open their own company store with all the RMTO/PE swag they've accumulated (longest RMTO tenure)
Minh Le
TCC is totes flying off the shelves! We produced this number of TCCs in 2024 (+/- 50)
482
ARTE
Amazon Robotics Test Executor
This colleague engineers solutions Monday to Friday, but in the past you could find them calculating lean angles instead of lean processes, as they explored New England's twisting roads from the back of a motorcycle.
Shruti
This aspirational engineering roadmap is our North Star, but judging by 'Beta 4,' our compass might need recalibrating.
PDP (product development process)
These two RMTO team members share the longest tenure, starting on the same day over 12 years ago (either person counts).
Jimmy G and Joe Bowden (12 year and 8 months!)
Karthik earned a fiducial of honor for changing the BOS12 cert floor over for the production run of how many Titans drives in 2024 (+/- 500)?
4,283
BHAG
Big Hairy Audacious Goal
In our team of DIY enthusiasts, this colleague sits comfortably above the rest, having hand-built their own couch from scratch.
Aishwarya
While a good PFMEA helps prevent it, this documentation process kicks in when Murphy's Law wins and we need to learn from our 'unexpected features'.
COEs (Correction of Errors)
Amazon's CEO has been steering the ship for this many years, outlasting countless kindle versions and several office coffee machines (+/- 1 year).
27 years
Our mightiest product, once forged in two locations but now emerging from a single site, reached this Olympian production number in 2024 (+/-5,000).
83,277
BYKTWD
Bring Your Kid To Work Day
Among Greg's many artistic talents, this lesser-known craft is his signature specialty, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary works of art.
Pyrography (wood-burning)