[PSUBS-MAILIST] Next time you're having a bad day at work....

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

A forward, so take it as you wish....
Carl

Subject: a really bad day at work. True story!  and hilarious!  Next
time you're having a bad day at work, think about 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 "The X," 103.2 on the
FM dial in Ft Wayne, IN, 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
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 airhose.  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 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 3 agonizing in-water decompression stops
totaling 35 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 2 days because my rectum 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...."
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