NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In June, the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center laid off more than 1,700 people. Sunday, the resort started re-hiring the employees they had to let go.
Suzanne Glafkla couldn't stop smiling as she got her job back as a special events supervisor.
"Gaylord is a great company, I'm too old to be doing anything I don't want to do and Gaylord is a great company," she told News 2.
Pete Weien is the general manager at the Gaylord Opryland Resort.
He said, "It's really another milestone event in the rebuilding of Gaylord Opryland. We really started planning this rehiring event right after that because we knew that day would be coming very soon."
It's a day Glafkla's been waiting patiently for nearly three months.
"[I] never doubted that they wouldn't be back bigger and better than ever," she said.
Through the week, laid-off Opryland employees will be called in by department to the Radisson Hotel where they'll meet and discuss changes with their manager, fill out paperwork, get a drug screening, a new ID badge and refitted for uniforms.
Weien said he hopes to rehire all the employees they had to let go plus 300 more for the hotel's reopening in November and the resort's annual A Country Christmas event.
Gaylord's rehiring event continues until Friday.
The remaining open positions will then be posted on their Web site.
Related Stories:
- Aug. 12, 2010: Gaylord Opryland set to reopen on schedule, buys new land
- July 27, 2010: Gaylord Springs Golf Links reopens post flood
- July 21, 2010: Opryland looks to annual Christmas celebration
- July 10, 2010: Gaylord Opryland's Country Christmas will go on after flood
- July 8, 2010: Mayor wants tax funds to help rebuild Opry House
- June 24, 2010: Gaylord plans updates during rebuilding process
- June 16, 2010: Gaylord Opryland to question Army Corps of Engineers
- June 3, 2010: Flood damage to Opryland Hotel may prompt lawsuit
- June 2, 2010: Gaylord to layoff 1,700 employees
- June 1, 2010: News 2 tours flood-damaged Opryland
- May 20, 2010: Opry Mills Mall shows clean up progress
- May 11, 2010: Opry Mills to remain closed
- May 7, 2010: Opryland damage estimates at least $50M
- May 5, 2010: CEO says it will be months before Opryland reopens
