You have got to be f’ing kidding me.
This is how the federal government processes retirement papers for federal employees, and has been for decades.
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025
No doubt The New York Times will urge you to look away, but the Pravda Media seemed to think that this was a problem back before Donald Trump and DOGE got on the case.
— Joe Papp (@joepabike) February 12, 2025
What used to be outrageous waste is now a charming quirk of the federal government, or perhaps a jobs program…
