What happens when you try to reintegrate into a high-stress corporate role while your body is still recovering? Add AI screening tools, recruiters suspicious of long tenure, and a job market that worships hustle culture. This satirical Office-style episode explores illness recovery, corporate pressure, and the absurdity of proving you’re “back” while still healing.

Job hunting over 50 feels like standing outside an exclusive club while an AI bouncer scans your résumé and silently shakes its head. Too old. Too experienced. Too expensive. After re-entering your CV for the hundredth time and collecting Workday accounts like Pokémon, the silence becomes personal. Is it AI? Is it ageism? Is there a blacklist? A cynical look at modern hiring, ghosting, and waiting to be let back in.