Such a failure today. Went in for my induction day today, was greeted by the manager who had no idea about an induction that day. Visited the line manager who informed me that my induction was actually on Sunday. I mentioned that I had actually called HR yesterday to confirm that my induction was indeed today - they had said it was so. Line manager said something along the lines of 'not again..'. She gave them a rang while I went off to sit. She came back 20 mins later, stating that HR had claimed responsibility for the mess up, I think I had been fired for not attending the induction so I was now re-hired. She agreed with me that I could attend an induction at a different store tomorrow.. So I'll be trecking out there to do induction then go back to my actual store to work.
Fun day. The store workers/management handled it really well though, and were very nice about the whole situation considering how much of their time was wasted too (I think they had already re-advertised the job).