But another part of the reason for the hiring is that the casino had cut back on staff during the slow winter months. Tom Pohlman, the casino’s general manager, said the Golden Nugget’s business has picked up significantly over the last month, due in part to the closing of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel on Jan. They were betting that they could land one of the 50 jobs the casino planned to fill at what it called an ’emergency jobs fair.’ They weren’t at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City to gamble. But that didn’t deter more than 1,300 hopefuls from lining up before the sun rose and standing in a queue that wrapped around the inside of the building. (AP) – The odds were even longer than usual inside one Atlantic City casino Wednesday morning.
