Trigone â The Greek word for a triangle. An apt name for that part of the urinary bladder. Gonia is the Greek word for an angle. Interestingly, it came from the Indo-European root genu meaning knee, the site of the angle of the leg. Old timers may still remember a strong household soap called Octagon because of the eight angles on a bar.
here are some examples of what employees think about working at amazon and microsoft two of the biggest corporations in seattle note that jeff bezos has an 87 percent approval rating while steve ballmer has just a 46 percent approval rating that s up from 29 percent one year ago
Amazon.com is a huge online retailer which does almost $60 billion a year in sales. But it doesn't pay its executives high salaries, as Fortune's Adam Lashinsky notes in his recent cover story :For example, Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's North American consumer business, one of its largest, earned a salary last year of $165,000. That reflected a $5,000 raise from the previous year.Save one peer with an ancient employment agreement, no one at Amazon makes more than Wilke.Lashinsky doesn't name that executive, but a quick glance at Amazon's proxy statement tells us it's Diego Piacentini, Amazon's senior vice president for international retail.iacentini makes $175,000 a yearâ$10,000 more than Wilke. Formerly Apple's general manager for Europe, he was hired in 2000 by Joe Galli, a former Black & Decker executive who had a brief stint as Amazon.com's COO.