Famous workplace mishaps, from sleeping through alarms to mistaken identity

Heathrow boss missed emergency calls as his phone was on silent – but things can also get missed on live TVYou would normally expect the role of Heathrow chief executive to be a fairly anonymous position away from the public eye, but Thomas Woldbye is in danger of becoming a household name after it emerged he slept through two emergency notification calls and “several” phone calls after a fire at a substation knocked out power supplies to the airport in March.He would not be the first person to be entirely unaware of what was going on around him. Here are some other well-known examples. Continue reading...

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