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You thought you had a bad JOB !
>
> Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy. Rob is a
> commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs
> underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent
> to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on your FM dial in
> Ft Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.
> Needless to say, she won.
> Hi Sis,
> Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
> bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so
> I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not
> so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must
> bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
> As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to
the
> office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So
what
> we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water
> heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea.
It
> heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver
> through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
> Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times
with
> no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is
> take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my
> whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
> Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch.
> So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few
> seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but
> the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
> The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my
> suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't
> stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I
> scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
> jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my
> dilemma over the communicator.
> His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five
> other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted
> the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression
> stops totaling thirty five minutes before I could reach the surface to
> begin my chamber dry decompression.
> When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.
> As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running
> down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt
> as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I
> couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next
time
> you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be
if
> you had a jellyfish stuck to your butt.
> Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..."
>
> Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy. Rob is a
> commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs
> underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent
> to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on your FM dial in
> Ft Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.
> Needless to say, she won.
> Hi Sis,
> Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
> bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so
> I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not
> so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must
> bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
> As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to
the
> office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So
what
> we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water
> heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea.
It
> heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver
> through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
> Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times
with
> no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is
> take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my
> whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
> Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch.
> So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few
> seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but
> the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
> The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my
> suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't
> stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I
> scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
> jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my
> dilemma over the communicator.
> His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five
> other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted
> the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression
> stops totaling thirty five minutes before I could reach the surface to
> begin my chamber dry decompression.
> When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.
> As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running
> down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt
> as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I
> couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next
time
> you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be
if
> you had a jellyfish stuck to your butt.
> Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..."