Express Employment Professionals Express staffing Waste of time: Misleading Job placement Bonita Springs Florida

An office recruiter at Express called me with a job offer. She expressed to me in detail that they had a job for me. I explained to her that I do not live in the area and was not interested in traveling that far if there were no open jobs for me, and I was only interested in coming to Naples if a job interview was not secured. The recruiter assured me that there were several jobs available in addition to the job I applied for via the internet. In addition, I explained to her that there was a local Express branch 15 minutes from my current location and if it was okay for me to complete testing and application at that location as I had done with other Express branch offices in the past.   The recruiter informed me because they had a job for me in Naples they needed me to come to their office which was over 250 miles away. I relied on this information to my detriment, so I took my car in for repair service totaling $250, because my car was not in any condition to make the drive to Naples as is.  I was holding the repairs off because I could not afford to pay it since I had been out of work for three years.  Nonetheless, I made the repairs one solely because of the recruiter’s reassurance of job placement.

Furthermore, while there, I had to wait over an hour just to be interviewed. Finally, during, the interviewing process it was then I had learned that they have NO open jobs for me and they were going to simply put me in an applicant pool for availability. I was then told it may be weeks/months before I got a call back.  

I was completely disgusted. I asked to speak to the manager, Leslie Hohmann, who is also the co-owner (well, at least she professed she was the owner). She was un-sympatric, defensive and unprofessional all without logical reasoning.  After I made both a valid and very reasonable complaint, she told me that she was not giving me corporate’s number and for me to look it up myself. Her behavior was catty, egoistic, and rude.

As instructed, I looked up corporate’s number only to find that there is no corporate complaint office for franchise owners, which explains her behavior. It is also of my opinion, which Mrs. Hohmann was jealous of me because I am a Haitian-American professional with Juris Doctorate degree who refused to stoop to her level of bully-like behavior.  

In short, considering the matter above, I believe I am entitled to $50.00 for gas reimbursement, because the recruiter intentionally, knowingly, and falsely misrepresented job placement which I relied on to my detriment.