Federal retirement system is back in the 50's

[mspart]

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2528129/iron-mountain-limestone-mine-used-for-federal-retirement-paperwork-processinghttps://gazette.com/news/wex/musk-details-sluggish-federal-retirement-process-at-old-pennsylvania-mine/article_40ca27b9-dbdd-5638-9832-32db99b36259.html

An old Pennsylvania limestone mine housing all retirement paperwork for government employees is limiting how fast workers can retire. Elon Musk wants to change that.

Speaking next to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Musk explained how the mine only allows 10,000 employees to retire per month because of the slowness of the manual processing of the paperwork.

He said he's aiming to fix the process to allow federal workers to retire faster, which would meet DOGE's goal of cutting down the federal workforce.

Musk said all retirement paperwork is handwritten and then goes down the mine and into a mineshaft elevator. "The limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government, and the elevator breaks down sometimes and nobody can retire," he said. "Doesn't that sound crazy?"

I understand that this is part of the jack squat that Elon has done.   It is amazing that the federal retirement system is completely analog, it is all on paper.   Is there any other outfit in the USA that runs like that?   I guess the good news is that you can't hack into it. 

mspart

 

[Bigbrog]

It is absolutely mind boggling!  You can't retire because the process takes to long...WTF?!?!

It is sort of like the DMV...they have taken a couple steps to modernize and streamline the processes, but they are still so archaic and rely on paper. 

[Caveira]

2 minutes ago, Bigbrog said:

It is absolutely mind boggling!  You can't retire because the process takes to long...WTF?!?!

It is sort of like the DMV...they have taken a couple steps to modernize and streamline the processes, but they are still so archaic and rely on paper. 

Probably translates to sitting on the payroll for an extra few months.   Doing nothing.  Then retiring.  All at the tax payer expense.   

[ionel]

11 minutes ago, Bigbrog said:

It is absolutely mind boggling!  You can't retire because the process takes to long...WTF?!?!

Coulda retired 50 years ago but for the paper work:

[red viking]

2 hours ago, mspart said:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2528129/iron-mountain-limestone-mine-used-for-federal-retirement-paperwork-processinghttps://gazette.com/news/wex/musk-details-sluggish-federal-retirement-process-at-old-pennsylvania-mine/article_40ca27b9-dbdd-5638-9832-32db99b36259.html

An old Pennsylvania limestone mine housing all retirement paperwork for government employees is limiting how fast workers can retire. Elon Musk wants to change that.

Speaking next to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Musk explained how the mine only allows 10,000 employees to retire per month because of the slowness of the manual processing of the paperwork.

He said he's aiming to fix the process to allow federal workers to retire faster, which would meet DOGE's goal of cutting down the federal workforce.

Musk said all retirement paperwork is handwritten and then goes down the mine and into a mineshaft elevator. "The limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government, and the elevator breaks down sometimes and nobody can retire," he said. "Doesn't that sound crazy?"

I understand that this is part of the jack squat that Elon has done.   It is amazing that the federal retirement system is completely analog, it is all on paper.   Is there any other outfit in the USA that runs like that?   I guess the good news is that you can't hack into it. 

mspart

 

Allocate funding to fix it and it gets solved. Funny how the wingers constantly complain about govt not doing enough or not being modernized, and then want to cut staffing at the same time. More hypocrisy....

[Caveira]

11 minutes ago, red viking said:

Allocate funding to fix it and it gets solved. Funny how the wingers constantly complain about govt not doing enough or not being modernized, and then want to cut staffing at the same time. More hypocrisy....

Please watch.  Red Viking this is what it’s like having a conversation with you.  
 

 

[Paul158]

1 hour ago, Caveira said:

Probably translates to sitting on the payroll for an extra few months.   Doing nothing.  Then retiring.  All at the tax payer expense.   

That is billions of dollars right there. (or more)

[Paul158]

1 hour ago, ionel said:

Coulda retired 50 years ago but for the paper work:

Amen to that.

[Paul158]

1 hour ago, red viking said:

Allocate funding to fix it and it gets solved. Funny how the wingers constantly complain about govt not doing enough or not being modernized, and then want to cut staffing at the same time. More hypocrisy....

If you modernize like every normal entity, you will be able to cut your staff. Welcome to the 20th and 21st Century.

[red viking]

6 minutes ago, Paul158 said:

If you modernize like every normal entity, you will be able to cut your staff. Welcome to the 20th and 21st Century.

Ya gotta get the funding to modernize first. Welcome to the real world. 

[Offthemat]

1 hour ago, red viking said:

Allocate funding to fix it and it gets solved. Funny how the wingers constantly complain about govt not doing enough or not being modernized, and then want to cut staffing at the same time. More hypocrisy....

106 million wasn’t enough. 

Edited February 12 by Offthemat

[Caveira]

10 minutes ago, red viking said:

Ya gotta get the funding to modernize first. Welcome to the real world. 

Ya.  That’s the issue.  The gov was so underfunded for the last 70 years they couldn’t get this done.   That’s what happened lol    

joke part.  Because they had the $$$.   Maybe stop spending $$$ on transvestite coffee bean research and use it on shyte’s that’s needed.  

[ionel]

32 minutes ago, red viking said:

Ya gotta get the funding to modernize first. Welcome to the real world. 

If you identify an entity that is inefficient or wasting money then throw more money at it.   

[Offthemat]

Because I don’t think people click on stuff.  The full text. 
 

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NEW: Elon Musk says the maximum amount of people who can retire from the federal government in a month is 10,000 because the paperwork is done manually at an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. The mine in question is Iron Mountain. "The speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government." Iron Mountain is a 330,000-square-foot data center more than 200 feet deep. It uses a 35-acre underground reservoir to create a geothermal cooling system.   A report from 2021 reveals how the government tried (and failed) to digitize the process for decades. $106 million later, and failing to do so, the government decided to keep the old process. "$106 million later, the OPM facility resumed functioning with the processes established back in 1977," STWserve dot com reported.

Edited February 12 by Offthemat

[Offthemat]

That was 106 million pre-inflation dollars. 

[mspart]

Give Musk and his guys 50 million post inflation and he'll get it done in half the time and under budget.  But we can't do that because Musk is not a real government employee and and and and.....

mspart