Express Employment Professionals

A man and a woman from this branch came by our office unannounced to inform us about their newly opened office. I explained to them that as a global company we had our own HR department and that our office manager who takes care of requests/​offers like this was out of the office. The two of them asked for my name, I gave them the office manager’s contact data so they could call or email him, and upon leaving some marketing material, they left. So far so good. The following week though our office manager comes to me and says they had called him and told him I had said that our office manager absolutely has to meet them. As we are a closely knit team, our office manager didn’t doubt that he should meet someone if I say so and agreed to meet them. Only when he was sitting in a room with them he understood that in fact they were an HR service agency. Well, he told them the same thing I told them — we have no need for these services — and was upset that he wasted time for nothing. I am just outraged by people using my name to basically lie to team members of mine. Clearly I never said that they had to MEET our office manager. Trying to start a business relation by sneaking your way in is the worst recommendation a company can give itself. So, even if we would be in need of an HR service agency — NO THANK YOU to this one!!!