Having a Bad Day at Work?

Question

Bad Day at Work

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 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 compl aints. 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 the crack of my butt. I informed the dive
supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were
unclear due to the 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".

Answer 1

That is just amazing. I don't think I'll ever complain about work again. Thanks for that.

Answer 2

I was on holiday on the Isle of Lewis and talked a trawler skipper into taking me out for a jaunt. (Two long days I later found) I'm handy on a boat and helped where I could. We hauled in the net and my face started to burn, jellyfish (Stingers) were being crushed as the net went over a large wheel and bits dropped onto us. The regular lads all pulled out halloween masks and slipped them on. I didn't have a mask but in desperation I stuck my hand into the cold fat sitting in the frying pan and wiped that onto my face. It worked after a fashion but for the rest of the week I was still suffering from stings to my face... and a rather rancid smell of reasty fat followed mr around.....................

Answer 3

Oh my god! Thats made my day feel like a day off comapred to that.

My sister is a doctor and she was recently in surgery performing a bowel operation. The bowel unfortunatly had a lot of problems and exploded onto my sister (the face region to be precise)

Its a whole new meaning to not being paid enough to take customers' crap.

Answer 4

i ask your self what percentage aspect you've (i do not elect to assert the p word because i do not understand if that's ok or no longer) because once you're on a date with a outstanding female, your brother better effective returns the favor...

Answer 5

Poor bloke! Did he love his job otherwise though? True, there are no jellyfish at work, but other things sting!

Answer 6

how awful god i never would have thought that could happened to a person i didn't know if i should laugh or cry for the guy

Answer 7

wow!!!! don't know what to say...i hope he's doing better now..i know his co-workers will never forget this..i also hope he won something good for all his pain....thanks for sharing that..it does put some new light on my job which i dislike....

Answer 8

Top notch and I thought my job was a pain in the ***!!!

Answer 9

Ha ha I love my job i love my job i love my job

Answer 10

thanks for the great idea. im going to try my best to send my boss for a holiday at the coast. even if not a jelly fish, anything will do

Answer 11

classic one of the best still laughing