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[denny]

That was interesting. Got asked to join one of my more senior colleagues for a meeting today, purpose unspecified. Turns out I've been reasssigned from my old line manager to him. This is a Good Thing (tm) as my old line manager is holding a serious grudge against me for the mess I made of my job during the particularly shitty bits of my depression, and tends to ignore my emails on work-related issues for as long as he feasibly can unless I cc: his boss (director of our division) on them. I didn't realise that his boss had noticed how much of a problem I was having in this respect until today - turns out he's noticed, isn't all that impressed with my manager's behaviour, and has pulled me out of the mess. Top bloke.

As a side-effect of this reassigning it looks like I'm going to be given a reasonably chunky project to get on with again, instead of doing odds and ends fixes on our existing codebase. This will work much better for/with my frame of mind. I like the sense of achievement you get from pushing a new project along, and I'm very hopeful that this will enable me to pull myself together from the still lingering depression, or at least the impact it's having on my work.