I LOVE MY JOB . . . . .
This is even funnier when you realize it's real! 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 FM dial in Ft.Wayne,
Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.
Needless to say, she won.
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Hi Sue,
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 wet
suit. 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 wet suit.
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 u p 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 shoved up
your butt.
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Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my
job, I love my job."
Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a
jellyfish bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
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