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:
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 dilemma4 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 that sucks the water out of the sea.
It heats it to a delightful6 temperature.
It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose,
which is taped to the air hose.
Now, this all 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 fantastic
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, of course,
only made things worse.
Within a few seconds my bottom started to feel a burning sensation.
I pulled the hose out from my back,
thinking that maybe the water was too hot,
but the damage was done.
In agony, I realized what had happened.