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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 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, which 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 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
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 shoved up your butt. "Now repeat to yourself,
"I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." And whenever you
have a bad day, ask yourself: is this a "jellyfish bad day?"
Cheers!
glad u made it thru all that pain buddy
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 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, which 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 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
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 shoved up your butt. "Now repeat to yourself,
"I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." And whenever you
have a bad day, ask yourself: is this a "jellyfish bad day?"
Cheers!
glad u made it thru all that pain buddy
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