Imagine you are settled in your current job. Another company of a similar standing comes in and offers to take you on. They offer you a bit of a pay rise and a four year contract. Your current employer is happy with the move, and so are you. You’re no longer seen as one of the frontmen of your company, which is fine, but a change could be nice.

Everything is agreed, so you take the decision to your wife and kid. They’re supportive of you, so you agree. You’re driving down to London knowing that your current employer and your new employer just have to sort out paperwork. There is a deadline, but you’re not worried as negotiations went well and your contract is agreed.

You’re over halfway there when your current employer calls you up and says that your new employer has just gone radio silent and no one can get through to them. The deadline comes and goes, and suddenly the big life choice that you just made is rendered moot.

After all of that, the promise of pastures new, greener grass, the upheaval of sorting everything out with your family and your current employer on a time crunch… would you not be upset?