After a way too long break, we're back with the story that made silence impossible: companies that laid off workers for AI are quietly, expensively rehiring them, and a new survey of 2,000 hiring managers puts a real number on it. We trace the "AI boomerang" back thirty years to a nearly identical management fad, sit inside a discrimination lawsuit alleging an algorithm targeted employees on medical and parental leave, and ask what it means that the last 40% of almost every job turns out to be the part no one figured out how to automate.