Federal Workers in Limestone Mine Bash Elon Musk's Claims About How They Handle Documents:'Not True...There's No Elevator'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Feb 23rd, 2025, 7:35 pm


Federal workers working in the limestone mine responsible for handling government retirements pushed back against Elon Musk’s claims of efficiency. Earlier this month, Musk told reporters inside the Oval Office that DOGE was investigating a limestone mine in Butler County, Pennsylvania for allegedly manually processing retirements for federal workers sometimes over the course of months.

He also claimed that if an elevator breaks down then “no one can retire” while adding, “The most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000.” “It’s like a time warp, and the elevator breaks down and sometimes — and then nobody can retire,” Musk told reporters. “You could do practically anything else, and you would add to the the goods and services of the United States in a more useful way.”

However, five current workers and one former supervisor from the mine spoke anonymously to CNN’s Gabe Cohen and said some of Musk’s claims are not accurate. “There’s no elevator. No elevator at all. You walk down into the mine. It looks like any other office building,” one anonymous current government employee told CNN.

Regarding Musk’s claim about the most number of workers who can retire in a month, all the workers confirmed there is “no limit” to the amount of monthly retirements with one worker adding, “I’m not sure where that number came from.”

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Full headline: Federal Workers in Limestone Mine Bash Elon Musk’s Claims About How They Handle Documents: ‘Not True…There’s No Elevator’

[Walleye]

1. That number came from where all the other numbers come from. Out of Elon's ass.

[livetohike]

2. Musk thinks everyone is useless. Everyone but him.

Who is the most useless? The Felon. Get rid of his job. I think Musk has taken it over.

[forgotmylogin]

9. Rich people who've never worked 9-5 have fancy ideas about what workers do.

Felon and Elon both think if there's not a workhouse foreman lording over employees that they don't have the competence to get a job done.

I work at home and I answer phone calls. If I am not clocked in at my desk where my webcam detects my presence I don't get paid. Other jobs that aren't front-facing service usually have a quota of work to complete, and if they're salaried who cares if they got it done in an 8 hour stretch, or a 10-hour stretch while also doing laundry and running their kids to school? Felon and Elon both basically work at home and aren't required to be at a desk for 8 hours. Trump has frequently expressed his golfing outings are on the job because he's schmoozing his clients for his non-political work. Usually presidents don't get to do that, but here we are.

Not requiring employees to commute is good business for the employer who doesn't have to maintain office space and the employee who saves a good amount of gas and wear-and-tear on their vehicle driving every day. In fact, I've read about a department that was forced back to the office and they had no computers nor desks for them, so they stand around since being in the office is apparently more important than actually doing the work.

[IronLionZion]

3. Nobody has the superior merits and qualifications of Felon Husk

Some tech bro.

[Historic NY]

4. Its Iron Mountain a private company dealing with all thing digital and digital security.

My local government uses them

https://www.ironmountain.com/]

They have storage in various facilities. There are a couple location here in NY state too. What better place then a mine.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They also do shredding

including for the federal government as my agency had used them in the past. We would use special large locked rolling trash bins with slots to put documents in and those would be wheeled to their truck for on-the-spot (loading dock) shredding.



Found this video -

I just know that I would stick stuff in the designated trash bin for shredding and the thing would eventually get wheeled away by one of the support staff.

[Historic NY]

6. When our town hall hand a new extension built

they installed an underground vault 2 stories floor to ceiling racks. I deal with very old records so they showed me where there were. I climbed up verified and never went back. That place was packed in no time. They have since done digitalization. Drowning in paper is so old school, so they send stuff to one of their storage facilities.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Here in Philly, our agency stored our Records stuff at NARA's warehouse

I have never been in there but it looks like this (on the outside) -

[Historic NY]

10. Cement mines

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-iron-mountains-storage-facility-2016-1]

My Irish relatives dug them

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Definitely needed!!

(including to repurpose those old mines)

[RobinA]

13. A Mine

in the middle of nowhere. I went to college in that area in the '70's and I used to drive around the countryside. I ran into that place on one of my wanderings. I don't think there was much of a building there at the time, although there were rumors they stored documents there. It was very nondescript in the woods. I don't think people worked there, because there were no signs of cars or anything. It's probably been fancied up now if people are actually working there.

Holy crap! I just looked it up and there is a picture. Totally developed since '77. There were no parking lots, or clearing, just that portal heading underground. Surrounded by young trees with that road going by. If you didn't look you would have missed it.

[Martin68]

8. Musk is a prodigious source of lies and self-invented propaganda.

[dalton99a]

12. +1