[CAUT] Fwd: Fwd: Bad Day at the Office

[Aaron Bousel]

It's a great story, but true?
Check
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.htm
and decide for yourself.

By the way, http://www.snopes.com/ is a great place for checking out 
a lot of this kind of thing.

Aaron

At 10:05 AM 4/5/2007, you wrote:
>Next time you have a problem with one of the professors, or even one
>of your clients, just remember this guy's dilemma.
>
>Have a great day.
>
>Wim
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >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 the 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, heats it to a delightful temperature, and 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 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 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 rear end.
> >
> >
> >
> >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!!!!!
> >
>
>


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Aaron Bousel
Registered Piano Technician, Piano Technicians Guild
abousel at comcast.net
(413) 253-3846 (voice & fax) 
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