Haha, this is true. I'll add that where I was working S-team members were showing up weekly, in other words the writing was on the wall that org level things were not going well. I mostly meant "oranges" as a random word that popped into my head to fuck with my boss. I was between "oranges" and "Methyl anthranilate" (the artificial chemical that behind "grape" flavor) ;)

What’s peculiar about “red badges” and “oranges” at Amazon (genuinely interested)?

At a company where I worked, red badges indicated someone was a contractor. Everyone else had a white badge (sometimes with a colored marker for certain kinds of access).

"Red badges" were routinely made fun of and hazed. A pretty high percentage would end up getting hired full-time and the hazing would stop, so it wasn't exactly "personal", but it was definitely kind of weird.

(I have no clue what a red badge indicates at Amazon, though.)