“NOTHING good happens after 1am”.

We’ve heard it all week bandied around by AFL commentators, footy clubs and no doubt in the hanging heads of the players from the now infamous Swans five.

But we’re told it’s also what any good topless waitress booking agent thinks too.

Too bad the agent from Party Girls Melbourne sending a callout at 4.26am to a room of five-plus males is known around the industry as someone who sends her girls to jobs at all hours.

Jobs are posted on the company’s WhatsApp with often a first-in best-dressed system with the girls responding if they are available for the gig.

The Herald Sun obtained the job callout for the Swans players where the details are initially limited to just five guys, Aussie ….

These types of late jobs are dangerous. There is generally no security to go with them and it’s up to the girls – and their agent – to use their discretion and wits in handling the men who call them in.

Many are inebriated. Many high on drugs. Many say one thing and want to do another.

But all the “working girls” from the Melbourne adults scene who spoke to the Herald Sun this week on the agreement of anonymity, say it’s the footy player types who are so entitled they think they can “do whatever they want and just get away with it.”

“This certainly isn’t the first and it won’t be the last time something like this has happened,” said one.

“The NRL rugby boys are just the same type of customers, they get put up on a pedestal. It’s that boys will be boys type situation,” said another.

“People always think, oh the stripper is out to extort them, but that’s not what happens.

“We all take privacy pretty seriously, because you aren’t going to keep booking jobs if you don’t. And we all know that things can get a bit crazy, we expect that and know how to pull them into line.

“So for something to have gotten this out of control it means something bad, really bad, has happened.”

The world of working girls “topless waitressing” at private parties is nothing new in Melbourne.

But it really (like really) ramped up in Covid lockdown thanks to strict curfews at strip clubs and other adults only entertainment venues, which were forced to shut their legs.

The jobs can be anywhere and for any occasion, as, too, the locations. Think boozy boat cruises, to footy, cricket or bowls club rooms for their end-of-season drink-a-thons. Makeshift warehouses for a bucks, a bonfire out bush, or even a construction job with some randy tradies after Friday knock off. Hoping to, well, knock one off.

Most are usually pre-planned. One ex agent told Page 13 the key is the rules of engagement which are spelt out clearly at the start of each booking.

This is done during the negotiation of the fee and hourly rate – which includes the agent’s percentage, known as “comms” and cut – with the finer details of any “extras” set out and made clear.

Extras, can mean a lot of things, one said with a laugh. A show, or lap dance for the party might be an extra $300 with another cut to the agent. And than there are other extras – from a private lap dance too as we have since discovered with the Swans 5, snorting drugs on someone’s boobs or bum ($100).

“Nothing is for free, that’s part of the hustle and the game,” said one topless waitress.

But what many, including the alleged Swans 5 victim who exclusively spoke to the Herald Sun’s Anthony Dowsley on Thursday night, are upset over is that no woman deserves to be made to feel unsafe in their workplace. What is lost in so much of the discourse this week they say is the narrative that topless waitresses, strippers, exotic dancers are “up for anything” or “had it coming”.

This couldn’t be further from the truth said one who has long been working in the game. There are clear and defined boundaries of what is on and off limits. The party is again given these instructions when arriving.

Something which was clearly not followed in that Pullman Hotel room.