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So What's up on this fine day?

Daddy Warbucks · Newbie

Why stick to rumors ?

Let's spread the facts too...

Daddy Warbucks · Newbie

How about a joke to get the ball rolling...

Having a bad day or week at work?

Having a bad day or week at work? You may have read this joke before as it has been widely circulated online, but I thought Id post it in case you could use a good laughand a reminder that even if you are having a really bad day in your dry, room-temperature cubicle, its probably not as bad as it could be.

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 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

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Hi Sue,Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know youve been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you reali ze its 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. Its 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 Ive 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. Its 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 dont have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldnt 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 couldnt poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.So, next time youre having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

To your success,David B. Wright
Author, Get A Job! Your Guide to Making Successful Career Moves

www.thegetajobbook.com

BankMonkey Admin · Member

Hey!

That's a really bad day... almost as bad as trying to finance this...