Dilbert is a wise man

I actually work somewhere now where the Dilbert principle applies. At the moment, I’m not working in a cubicle, but it well happen soon. At least, that is what they tell me. It’s hard to know if I am doing a good job and will get to move on to that and better pay because they use humiliation as a technique of maintaining morale control. They don’t want our self esteem to get to high, we might think we can do something more with our lives than file things, but they want us to be happy because we get more work done. Oh dear, I do live in a Dilbert cartoon. At what point should I be afraid?