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> I love my job (from a reader – source
unconfirmed)
> >
> >
> > Next time you have a bad day at work, pull this up and give it a read.
> >
> > 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 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 wetsuit. This time of the 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,
> > 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 5
> > other divers were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted
> > the dive.
> >
> > I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompressions 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 worse it
> > would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
> >
> > Now repeat to yourself, " I love my job, I love my job, I love my
job..."
> >
> >
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