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I mean, I get it. The government uses way too much paper at all levels (from municipalities all the way to D.C.) and yes they rely on antiquated and woefully inefficient processes, but with all that being said this claim doesn't really hold water for me.

 

Iron Mountain is just a repository where these documents go to live and in most cases never seen again.

 

No one is processing retirement paperwork down there, and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone has to go down there to retrieve something in order to effectuate someone's retirement.

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15 minutes ago, yall said:

Are you literally just discovering Iron Mountain?


 

Yes.  Had no clue.  


The retirement process is what’s …. Something 

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21 minutes ago, yall said:

I mean, I get it. The government uses way too much paper at all levels (from municipalities all the way to D.C.) and yes they rely on antiquated and woefully inefficient processes, but with all that being said this claim doesn't really hold water for me.

 

Iron Mountain is just a repository where these documents go to live and in most cases never seen again.

 

No one is processing retirement paperwork down there, and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone has to go down there to retrieve something in order to effectuate someone's retirement.

These ass hats will believe anything. It's actually very funny. 

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5 minutes ago, 4th&long said:

These ass hats will believe anything. It's actually very funny. 


 

The problem is this….so yes this is real:

 

 


 

 

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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:


 

The problem is this….so yes this is real:

 

 


 

 

 

Is Musk going to propose that we spend the money on digitizing every single one of these records? 

 

I mean that's fine, but it ain't going to be cheap. 

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4 hours ago, yall said:

I mean, I get it. The government uses way too much paper at all levels (from municipalities all the way to D.C.) and yes they rely on antiquated and woefully inefficient processes, but with all that being said this claim doesn't really hold water for me.

 

Iron Mountain is just a repository where these documents go to live and in most cases never seen again.

 

No one is processing retirement paperwork down there, and it's incredibly unlikely that anyone has to go down there to retrieve something in order to effectuate someone's retirement.

True.

There are what's called federal "record retention schedules" that require these retired (haha) files to be maintained ... somewhere. So that's where they put them when the paperwork is done. 

So fine, change the record retention laws. Appropriate more money to digitize things (they already do this, but as you can imagine it's a huge task).

There are people who work at the caves - Lee's Summit, MO is another one - but they're not actually processing the retirement paperwork. They're just filing it away.

 

Yes, they will believe anything.

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10 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

True.

There are what's called federal "record retention schedules" that require these retired (haha) files to be maintained ... somewhere. So that's where they put them when the paperwork is done. 

So fine, change the record retention laws. Appropriate more money to digitize things (they already do this, but as you can imagine it's a huge task).

There are people who work at the caves - Lee's Summit, MO is another one - but they're not actually processing the retirement paperwork. They're just filing it away.

 

Yes, they will believe anything.

I mean, have any of you heard of a Federal employee complaining they were unable to retire or delayed for any reason? Me neither. Seems like a non-issue.

 

And re: record retention - they don't ever dispose of this stuff. They should but often don't. It's easier to shove it into storage than actually adhere to the policy.

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The X-Files talks about this. But I think it was West Virginia and they were tissue samples taken from test subjects.

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1 hour ago, LeviF said:

The X-Files talks about this. But I think it was West Virginia and they were tissue samples taken from test subjects.

 

It was medical records from every single Federal employee I believe. Great episode, haven't watched it in a long time.

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7 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

 

It was medical records from every single Federal employee I believe. Great episode, haven't watched it in a long time.

 

I think they found a file for Samantha Mulder as well, but the name on the file originally was Fox Mulder. 

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1 hour ago, LeviF said:

 

I think they found a file for Samantha Mulder as well, but the name on the file originally was Fox Mulder. 

 

That's right! The arc where she came back from the alien abduction. 

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18 hours ago, yall said:

Are you literally just discovering Iron Mountain?

 

I have heard of Iron mountain but i never knew exactly what it was for which the gov't has a lot of those kind of things that none of us understand why which i'm pretty sure that is the way they liked it but the internet has changed much of that which in some ways is a good thing like some of this USAID stuff . 

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