I feel like I can't trust my boss's guidance anymore.
Background:I've been drifting throughout the country and taking jobs in different places to slow travel and see the country. It's been very nice having traveled so many places and seen so much but it's come at the cost of not having been somewhere long enough to develop an expertise in that job's niche and the relationships that come with time in these areas. It's left me with some esteem items that I look to validate through work and a deep seated loyalty to people who care about me.
Fast forward to graduation from college, I took a job with a company with the understanding I'd be there for the long haul, getting broad exposure to many niches in my field and having the benefit of putting down roots. My manager is swearing up and down about all the great things with the company but with setting expectations about how things can/should be done. I think, okay fine, I'll do that, and to show them I'm serious, I'll go hard. Each time they put out an expectation, they retract it like a month later with extreme frustration.
Be customer intimate ->”NO YOURE BEING TOO FAMILAR”
Make sure your hours total 40 a week, were flexible here -> NOOO YOU CANT WORK 12 HOURS ONE DAY AND 6 THE NEXT”
If you want to, knock off a few hours early on Friday or Monday if you want to work on Sunday and Saturday and put those hours on Friday or Monday respectively -> NOOO YOUR HOURLY ENTRIES ARENT ACCURRATE
If a customer is asking you something you should already know and you have to do research, that isn't directly billable. -> WHY IS THERE SO MUCH NONBILLABLE TIME IN YOUR ENTRIES
Some of this does make sense, over familiarity is alienating sure, but I feel like it's either a psyop to keep me distracted OR my manager is trying too hard to be my friend, seem cool and then gets rebuffed by the rest of management. There's been substantial outflows of revenue generating employees as well.
I love the work, I enjoy my team but im being corrected too often for following instructions by management and I don't know how to handle it. Would it be too gaudy to call a meeting with management and tell them this as well as other employees negative throughts?