Amabot
English
Etymology
Blend of Amazon + bot
Noun
Amabot (plural Amabots)
- (informal) A particularly dedicated employee of Amazon.com, Inc..
- Hypernym: Amazonian
- 2016, Doug Hill, Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology (page 67)
- Those who can take it become what's known within the company as “Amabots,” proud soldiers in Bezos's march to world domination. One former employee described the company's labor relations policy as “Purposeful Darwinism.”
- 2016, Gareth R. Jones, Jennifer M. George, Mary Barrett, Contemporary Management
- Amabots are workaholics who seem to thrive on the relentlessly fast pace. One example is Dina Vaccari, who was charged to sell Amazon gift cards and used her own money, without approval, to pay for a freelancer […]
- 2018, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Thomas Ramge, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
- Processing that much information puts a drain on morale. “If you are a good Amazonian, you become an Amabot,” one employee told the Times reporters.
- 2018, Dennis K. Mumby, Timothy R. Kuhn, Organizational Communication: A Critical Introduction (page 327)
- And Amabots sacrifice: One employee reported not sleeping for four days straight (and once used her own money to hire a freelance worker in India to enter data so she could complete more work); […]
Anagrams
- Motaba