Inspired by the poster who is having difficulties with a house sale, this happened about a year ago, but it still baffles me.
I work in quite a niche, but growing field, and it can be difficult to recruit to. We advertised for a couple of posts, and got a small pool of applicants. One of the people we appointed had experience in an adjacent field, and said he was keen to transfer. He went through all the necessary checks, filled in forms with banking details etc, was sent all the details (start time, etc), and seemed really keen in all correspondence, but just didn't show up. We tried contacting him, and then his NOK, but had no response.
We obviously moved on, and readvertised, filling the post with a great person. I'm a believer in "what's meant to happen, does", but I'm baffled over why someone would do that. If there was an emergency or something, there's been plenty of time since, to explain.
Anyone got any ideas??