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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 a radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a
worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
Hi Cheryl,
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, heats it to a delightful temperature, 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 bum started to itch. So, of course, I
scratched it. This only made things worse. *
Within a few seconds my bum 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 bum was not as fortunate. When I
scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
jellyfish into the crack of my bum.
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 laughinghysterically. Needless to say I
aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
totalling 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 bum as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out,
but I couldn't poo for two days because my bum 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 arse. Now
repeat to yourself, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." Now
whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish Bad day?
May you NEVER EVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
Rob.
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 a radio station in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a
worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
Hi Cheryl,
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, heats it to a delightful temperature, 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 bum started to itch. So, of course, I
scratched it. This only made things worse. *
Within a few seconds my bum 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 bum was not as fortunate. When I
scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
jellyfish into the crack of my bum.
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 laughinghysterically. Needless to say I
aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
totalling 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 bum as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out,
but I couldn't poo for two days because my bum 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 arse. Now
repeat to yourself, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." Now
whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish Bad day?
May you NEVER EVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
Rob.
