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  • DUD
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2002
    • 3309
    • Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.
    • Ryobi BT3000

    #1

    I Love My Job

    I LOVE MY JOB . . . . . .

    If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
    is even funnier when you realize it's real! 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'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 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 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 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.'

    Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad
    day?

    May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
    5 OUT OF 4 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND FRACTIONS.
  • pelligrini
    Veteran Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 4217
    • Fort Worth, TX
    • Craftsman 21829

    #2
    That's too funny!
    Erik

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    • Gator95
      Established Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 322
      • Atlanta GA
      • Ridgid 3660

      #3
      http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.asp

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      • LCHIEN
        Super Moderator
        • Dec 2002
        • 22001
        • Katy, TX, USA.
        • BT3000 vintage 1999

        #4
        i agree with snopes, this story is very suspect since deep sea divers working deep offshore rigs will not wear wetsuits, but the bulkier dry suits. They would not be using a makeshift warm water hose and especially without a filter of any kind. Too kludgy for a professional operation and offshore operators don't use fly-by-night outfits for this kind of expensive work.

        Still its funny like the story of the guy who blew up on the toilet. We all secretly love bathroom humor.
        Loring in Katy, TX USA
        If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to treat all problems as if they were nails.
        BT3 FAQ - https://www.sawdustzone.org/forum/di...sked-questions

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        • DUD
          Veteran Member
          • Dec 2002
          • 3309
          • Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.
          • Ryobi BT3000

          #5
          I didn't check Snopes, I just thought it was funny. Bill
          5 OUT OF 4 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND FRACTIONS.

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          • pelligrini
            Veteran Member
            • Apr 2007
            • 4217
            • Fort Worth, TX
            • Craftsman 21829

            #6
            True or not, it's still really funny.
            Erik

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            • TheRic
              Veteran Member
              • Jun 2004
              • 1912
              • West Central Ohio
              • bt3100

              #7
              Originally posted by pelligrini
              True or not, it's still really funny.
              I'll second that. Sometime you just have to enjoy it for what it is, a JOKE.
              Ric

              Plan for the worst, hope for the best!

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              • TB Roye
                Veteran Member
                • Jan 2004
                • 2969
                • Sacramento, CA, USA.
                • BT3100

                #8
                I hate snopes! Messes up a lot of good stories

                Tom

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                • BobSch
                  Veteran Member
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 4385
                  • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
                  • BT3100

                  #9
                  Reminds me of the work story of a guy and a barrel of bricks...

                  I am writing in response to your request for additional information for block number 3 of the accident reporting form. I put 'poor planning' as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully and I trust the following detail will be sufficient. I am an amateur radio operator and on the day of the accident, I was working alone on the top section of my new 80 foot tower. When I had completed my work, I discovered that I had, over the course of several trips up the tower, brought up about 300 pounds of tools and spare hardware. Rather than carry the now un-needed tools and material down by hand, I decided to lower the items down in a small barrel by using a pulley, which was fortunately attached to the gin pole at the top of the tower. Securing the rope at ground level, I went to the top of the tower and loaded the tools and material into the barrel. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of the 300 pounds of tools. You will note in block number 11 of the accident reporting form that I weigh only 155 pounds. Due to my surprise of being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate of speed up the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40 foot level, I met the barrel coming down. This explains my fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley.

                  Fortunately, by this time, I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold onto the rope in spite of my pain. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of tools hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the tools, the barrel now weighed approximately 20 pounds. I refer you again to my weight in block number 11. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40 foot level, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles, and the lacerations of my legs and lower body. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of tools and, fortunately, only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the tools, in pain, unable to stand and watching the empty barrel 80 feet above me, I again lost my presence of mind. I let go of the rope . . .
                  Bob

                  Bad decisions make good stories.

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                  • bigstick509
                    Veteran Member
                    • Dec 2004
                    • 1227
                    • Macomb, MI, USA.
                    • BT3100

                    #10

                    Mike

                    "It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain

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                    • SwingKing
                      Established Member
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 131
                      • Fort Worth, TX, USA.
                      • BT3100

                      #11
                      Originally posted by BobSch
                      Reminds me of the work story of a guy and a barrel of bricks...
                      Mythbusters actually tested this one a while back (first season I think). Conditions would have to be absolutely perfect, but they did finally make it happen. It was really cool to actually watch this in real time, but I felt sorry for Buster that day .

                      -- Ken

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