oliver

easily amused but hardly impressed

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

A Gen Z joined the team.

Week one.

During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”

Gen Z nodded.

Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”

The room went quiet.

- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.

Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”

Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”

Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.

That’s when the team realized something.

When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:

Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out

only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”

So Gen Z chose differently.

- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.

They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.

It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.

And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…

Can you really blame them?

[oliver @imolipop]

@QuantumCamper i understand not letting people open each thing until a timer runs out but like after that they should just all be available to open

[𝙰 𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙻𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 @Coleidoscopes]

I remember finding taco bell sauce packets in a drawer of the refrigerator, and that's what I had to feed myself for and entire weekend when I was 8 years old

I remember when I hid in a closet and ate bad sandwich meat at 2 a.m. when I was 14

Before she died, my mom used to tell this cute story about how she found me eating jarred salsa with a spoon when I was 3, I just "loved it so much," but what she didn't mention was that a jar in the fridge door was all there was for me to find for myself to survive on

I have a lot of memories I never want children to be forced into reliving for the rest of their lives

I don't know if it's brokenness or lack thereof that makes people so wicked, but I'm going to choose to be grateful that you don't know what it's like or hope you can overcome what has made you so rotten

It's one thing to be a troll on the internet and another to actively advocate for the starvation of people you have deemed lesser than you

No, I wasn't born to people who were the shining example of hard work and good choices, but I also starved just like you think I should have, and I will never be able to forget it

$35 a year to prevent that for even a single child I will never meet will be money well spent

This is the only trauma dump I will ever write; I hope that it finds you well, and you truly consider what hunger means for millions of children born to parents and conditions out of their control

[oliver @imolipop]

food doesn’t hold moral values you idiot

[𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 @MrLeadslinger]

When I go to the store and see them advertising big tubs of chocolate chip cookies as EBT eligible it makes me not care about it getting shut down.

[Eboni Russell @_Russell_00]

I live in Chicago… I live a block over from Cicero. ICE visited my home yesterday. ICE didn’t knock. ICE tried to forcefully open my window. ICE opened my screen and asked me to sign papers. I AM an American Citizen. Born on U.S. soil. ICE forcefully tried to enter my home! WAKE UP AMERICA!

[Scru🇳🇬 @scrufacejean]

Kendrick Lamar spoke english and had a red white & blue theme. They got mad. Beyoncé spoke english and literally did a COUNTRY MUSIC half time show. They got mad. At some point you gotta just admit it got nothin to do with the language, and everything to do with you being a racist xenophobe. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Bilal Abdul Kareem @BilalKareem]

Mainstream media is doing its best to make sure you don’t see these images. Share!

[Jo Allen @joallen_]

HONEY WE’RE HOME 🌄

[Andre 3004 @Blackkout__]

Rest in Peace to every Palestinian person Israel has killed and never got an obituary, funeral, or flag raised for them.

[oliver @imolipop]

honestly he’s lucky he went out quick, there’s literal children that suffer, starve, die of dehydration or just get blown to bits everyday…

but yeah thoughts and prayers

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

"you're sick for wishing death on someone"

charlie kirk😭:

[oliver @imolipop]

blind boxes are like microdosing gambling

[oliver @imolipop]

(dear people with hair extensions) if you are lying about the length of your hair than what else are you lying about

[Rosanna Pansino @RosannaPansino]

Seeing education take one of the top 3 spots over clickbait-y, exploitative, billionaire backed, soulless, morally bankrupt, unoriginal, bottom feeding brain rot 'content' is healing my soul. 🥰

[oliver @imolipop]

they were not allowed to touch the pool water until the end