> This is even funnier when you realize it is real! The 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.
> 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 have 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 up a jellyfish and
> pumped itinto my suit.
> Now, since I do not have any hair on my back, the jellyfish could not
> 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.