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by ghurtado 3425 days ago
Damage control.

They went from "lol, you're the only one with a problem, get lost!" to "hmmm, this is generating bad publicity.. now we definitely sympathize with your concerns!" real quick.

As far as I'm concerned, I now know all I will ever need to know about Gigster.

Your reputation is something that takes a lifetime to build and only 5 minutes to ruin permanently.

2 comments

> Your reputation is something that takes a lifetime to build and only 5 minutes to ruin permanently.

This is the most important takeaway from this entire sad thread. Wonderful comment!

Thanks! But let me make sure I properly credit Warren Buffett for it :)
> Your reputation is something that takes a lifetime to build and only 5 minutes to ruin permanently.

A quote I read somewhere recently: your reputation grows like a coconut tree, but fall like a coconut.