MS Correspondent
(Nov 12th, 2006 Sunday IST)
Hyderabad: "Get Well Soon, Chief!!!" was the word chief used to hear from a team of 7 drivers who used to come with a warm smile and a rose in their hands on regular intervals to chief's room. Prepared for gandhigiri completely this team decided to make a 'Nicotine Free Environment'. For those who don't know chief well, chief is a very intriguing personality working as a test lead of the author and his team at Microsoft IDC. He is a multi-talented personality with just one bad habit of smoking and thanks to the Gandhigiri, it no more bother him.
"I was pretty clean even after my college days got over. I remember those days back in America where I first started smoking. It used to be really cold out there and I was left with no other option other than smoking. I know that its not a good habit to inculcate but it just happened. I really wanted to quit it but couldn't. Thanx to the team and Gandhigiri that I am all right now." said Chief.
Here is what let the driver team drive this effort of Nicotine Free Tomorrow.
 | Notice the cigarette butts lying on the ground in the enlarged image |
| (click on the image to enlarge it) |
 | The first ever poster made by the team for chief to quit smoking. It was his b'day on that day and that was the gift from the team. |
| Poster on his first day of non-smoking. Cigarette lost its one of the patron on that day. |  |
 | First non-smoking day poster. |
| First non-smoking day poster. |  |
Not only this but the team gave him poster, rose and 'Get Well Soon' wishes in between the period while he was getting cured.
And after so much effort, today the driver team proudly boast of having 100% non-smokers in their team. Once again, thanks to Gandhigiri.
PS: Dear Readers, if you find Chief puffing up a cigarette butt again in the future then please feel free to give the bumps to him because doggy's tail never gets straighten :P.
