digidog
April 25th, 2003, 11:09 PM
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 Laughline, who was sponsoring a "worst job
experience" contest. Needless to say, she won.
____________________________________________
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 **** 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 damn 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 I 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 ass started to itch.
So,of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few
seconds my ass 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 ass
was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was
actually grinding the jellyfish into my ass.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
instructions were unclear due to the fact that he and five 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 ass as
soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't
****
for two days because my ******* 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 ass.
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 Laughline, who was sponsoring a "worst job
experience" contest. Needless to say, she won.
____________________________________________
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 **** 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 damn 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 I 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 ass started to itch.
So,of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few
seconds my ass 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 ass
was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was
actually grinding the jellyfish into my ass.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
instructions were unclear due to the fact that he and five 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 ass as
soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't
****
for two days because my ******* 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 ass.