‘Most irresponsible thing I’ve seen a business do’: Stripper claims asked to work close to Cyclone
A Gold Coast exotic dancer is fuming, claiming her Brisbane strip joint employer requested dancers and staff hours away from Cyclone Alfred’s weather chaos arriving.
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An exotic Gold Coast dancer is accusing a Brisbane strip club she claimed asked for staff keen to work hours out from Cyclone Alfred chaos of being irresponsible.
Love and Rockets dancer Charlotte Gunders took to TikTok to voice her frustration posting what she claimed was a screenshotted conversation with a boss from the Fortitude Valley venue asking “are you able to work tonight thanks”.
It was mere hours before Alfred was due to make its chaotic landfall arrival, with Gold Coast-based Ms Gunders responding “no there is a cyclone coming”.
The screenshotted conversation shows the message from the club at 1:48pm on the Friday and her reply was one minute later at 1:49pm. The furious video Ms Gunders posted was at 8:47pm that night as wild winds from Cyclone Alfred were blasting the Gold Coast, knocking over 100s of trees by the morning and leaving at its peak 130,000 Gold Coast homes without power.
“Nothing says ‘we don’t give a f*** about your safety more than receiving a text message like this from your workplace,” she claimed.
“I work at a strip club - there is a cyclone about to f****** hit Gold Coast in the next couple of hours and they texted me asking me to come into work. And then I see ‘we’re open tonight’ on their Instagram,” she claimed.
Ms Gunders faced a drive of well over an hour in the cyclonic conditions and slammed the claimed request to work as “the most irresponsible thing I have ever seen a business do”.
“South East Queensland is in lockdown for the cyclone and you’re expecting girls to drive in this weather and drive home when a cyclone is meant to be crossing the coast right over the top of Brisbane. Really see where their priorities lay and it’s not in the girls’ safety,” she claimed.
This masthead reached out to the venue several times for a response to Ms Gunders’ claims and to confirm open times throughout the cyclone. A person who answered the phone at the venue said management “weren’t available for comment at that time” but that the message would be passed on.
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