Are US Retirement Papers Kept in Limestone Mine? What We Know

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A vast underground mine is being used to store documents relating to federal workers—and Elon Musk has raised questions over its efficiency.

Why It Matters

Musk's unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been tasked with streamlining and reducing the cost of the federal government. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order implementing the DOGE "workforce optimization initiative"; this, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government. Speaking alongside the president this week, Musk has used the facility as an example of government inefficiency.

What To Know
During the signing of the executive order on Tuesday, February 11, while talking about reducing the size of the federal government workforce, Musk referenced "a limestone mine" where "we store all the retirement paperwork" for government workers.

The facility does indeed exist. Located near Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 45 miles north of Pittsburgh, it is run by the Office of Personnel Management and processes the retirement paperwork for the entire federal workforce and has done since the mid-20th century. Newsweek has contacted the Office of Personnel Management for clarification and comment via email outside of regular working hours.

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[Kilgore]

1. This may help

https://stwserve.com/iron-mountain/

[Wiz Imp]

2. It is not a limestone mine

It is an underground storage facility at the site of a former mine. And of course, completely contradictory to Musk's claim, it is not an example of inefficiency but rather actually quite efficient. They've tried to computerize everything multiple times in the past and failed while spending hundreds of millions of dollars on failed contracts. To successfully computerize things would likely cost over a billion dollars and take at least 10 years to accomplish. That would not be a smart use of money when it operates just fine as it is now.

[Autumn]

3. It just doesn't exist as the asshole thinks it does. It has worked well.

And cheaper than anything else the fuck could do.

[slightlv]

4. I figured it had to be Iron Mountain...

Many years ago, Hubby worked in an IM office for years... like until one year before he could retire from the company (IOW, 19 years). They let him and another who'd worked with him for 19 years go just so they wouldn't hit that 20th year and "reap" the rewards that came with retiring from the company. I've got a REALLY bad taste in my mouth about them and their company. Still... Musk is so far off the mark he doesn't know what he's talking about at all. IM operated in one of the old mines here in KC, too. Lots of companies do. I'm assuming it saves them money on overhead (rent) and is more or less temperature controlled. Musk is such an idiot... and an egotistical idiot is nothing more than an out of control megalomaniac. He HAS to go. No one elected him for anything, yet he's affecting the life of every individual in the United States. This is just wrong. Looks like we ought to be able to file a class action lawsuit against him for the harm he's doing to the government AND to each of us, individually.