AI Won’t Steal These Jobs Because Half Our Babu’s Still Can’t Turn On a Computer — Govt Salary for Doing Nothing
You walk into a government office in 2026. The fan is creaking, files are piled like ancient ruins, and the clerk you need to see is staring at a monitor like it’s an alien artifact. He doesn’t know how to open Excel. He types with two fingers. He asks you to “send on WhatsApp” because email is “too complicated.” Meanwhile, the salary hits his account on the 1st without fail—full PF, DA, HRA, medical, pension, the works. No performance review. No KPI. No firing. AI might be coming for coders and drivers, but these guys? Untouchable. Bulletproof. The safest job in the entire country.
Computer Literacy? Not Required, Never Checked
You can be promoted from peon to section officer without ever learning Ctrl+C. Many still write “application” by hand in 2026. wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW">digital India? That’s for posters on the wall, not for actual work.
Duty Is 100% Optional
Show up late, leave early, take a 3-hour lunch, disappear for “field visit,” sit scrolling reels—nobody cares. File not moving? Blame “system down.” Citizen suffering? “Come tomorrow.” zero accountability.
Salary Is 100% Mandatory
Rain or shine, strike or no strike, pandemic or normal day—the 7th Pay Commission money lands automatically. Arrears? Retro pay hikes? Bonuses? All guaranteed. Performance? Irrelevant.
The Tech Fear Is Real & Protected
Ask them to attach a PDF, and watch panic set in. “Sir, computer hang ho gaya.” They treat keyboards like they bite. Yet promotions keep coming. Training programs? Attended, certificates collected, nothing learned.
Safest job in Human History
Private sector: one bad quarter and you’re out. Startups: survive or starve. Gig economy: no work, no pay. government clerk? Even if the office burns down, the salary continues. Pension after retirement. Family pension after death. iron rice bowl on steroids.
The Bitter Punchline
While you grind 12-hour days, pay 30–40% tax, chase deadlines, and pray your startup doesn’t fold… the guy who can’t spell “Excel” is chilling with job security that even supreme court judges envy. And the cherry? He’s the one deciding your file, your license, your ration card.
This isn’t a bug in the system.
This is the system. India runs on two classes:
This is the system. India runs on two classes:
- People who pay taxes and suffer delays.
- People who take those taxes as salary and cause the delays.
AI might disrupt the world, but it hasn’t figured out how to replace someone whose only skill is collecting a paycheck without doing the job.
Until then, the government office remains the final fortress of untouchable mediocrity.
Safest job in the world?
Hands down.
And we’re all still paying for it.
Until then, the government office remains the final fortress of untouchable mediocrity.
Safest job in the world?
Hands down.
And we’re all still paying for it.