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.”

The problem is that when you physically try to impede my progress—then it moves up to a whole ’nother level that you probably can’t handle me on.

A cruise-climb is more efficient than the standard step climb, but is rarely used since it's much harder for ATC to manage.

They're having a hard time getting used to the food down here. They don't like grits — bless their hearts, they don't even like sweet tea.