Top of the charts on the good side is that I got married, had a fantastic wedding shared with wonderful friends and family and then capped off by a brilliant honeymoon in New York. Whilst in the Big Apple, the King of Pop died and in the celebrity death equivalent of rubber necking at an accident on the motorway, we made our way to the Apollo in Harlem the following morning to see the start of the shrine to Wacko Jacko. A surreal experience where real and fake mourners met to share their grief, fans and pseudo-fans gathered to proclaim his genius and merchandisers reaped the rewards of their rapidly printed $20-RIP (off?) Michael T-shirts.
Bottom of the hit parade was the news on the day of our return from honeymoon that my former employer Barkers had gone into administration. Gone under. Kaput. No more. And with it they took my six months pay in lieu of notice and benefits totalling some £38,000. That's a whole lot of RIP Barkers T-shirts I'd need to sell to get that back. In the meantime, actually at exactly the same time, a pre-pack deal was being done with Penna to buy the assets. I am now a 'disgruntled ex-employee' (nice turn of phrase from the still employed CEO of Penna-Barkers) and creditor of Barkers in administration. I always knew that "I wanna be startin' somethin'" of my own and that hasn't changed. The Employer Reputation Company will launch officially in the next couple of weeks albeit with less working capital and less time to make it a success than I'd originally planned. As the next line goes, "I gotta be startin' somethin'".
So, what relevance are my mixed fortunes to reputation? How will Barkers be remembered? And of Michael Jackson, will his reputation and memory be one of musical genius or freakish episodes? The difficulty with reputation will always be, in the words of Warren Buffet that, "it takes 20 years to build a reputation and only 5 minutes to ruin it".
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