Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash The irony is so thick you could slice it with a termination letter. Just when in-house legal departments finally caught a break—when AI promised to be the cavalry charging over the hill to rescue us from the avalanche of work, the hiring freeze, and the perennial burnout—management looked us square in the eye and said something that revealed the entire charade. Not with malice. Not even with particular consciousness. Just the quiet part, spok