Should I get this in writing?

I want help so that I don’t do anything to put a target on my back- even though it seems like I already have.

I started this remote job April 1st. Trained for 1 week, they threw us out on the phones. After 2 weeks we went through a conversion. 3 days before conversion they called us for a meeting and threw out number expectations that do not match with current productivity. I tried to speak up and ask questions with a few others since they asked what we thought about the numbers and I provided proof from our group chart.

Monday, I was wrote up for not meeting the numbers they rolled out officially 2 weeks ago on their new system that isn’t fully working yet FOR MY FIRST MONTH OF WORK’S NUMBERS. I’m also wondering if anyone else was wrote up for what I was since I’m seeing that only 3 of 30 people have got the daily numbers only twice this month. Just seems crazy to me.

Yesterday, I accidentally get a call from a high higher up. I’m polite, apologize, and try to scurry off the phone but he is not going for it. He is really nice and asked me maybe 8-10 questions about how my life at work and as a new hire is going. I answered them like a basic interview. Then he asks me to ask him questions and give him recommendations to do better. I gave my thoughts and he agreed.
Since at the time I thought I didn’t have much to lose I just went ahead and asked..
“How do we determine what the numbers and expectations should look during this conversion?”
He answered it genuinely and in a way that made sense.

The call went well, I teams the chat and tell them that the owners are calling around to see what we are doing and jokingly said to stay diligent.

Today I get a teams call from my manager saying that I did great speaking to him. There’s only one problem- I should’ve asked her the questions instead of him. She said my questions were inappropriate and she will set up meetings with other higher ups if i have questions but to only ask them to her instead.

I want to ask her to please summarize this conversation in an email, since asking questions to the owner that wanted them shouldn’t be an issue. I just feel like I’m being critiqued like crazy ever since I spoke up. Maybe this about to be a hard lesson learned lbvs.

TLDR: My manager isn’t happy I asked questions to her higher up even though he asked me to. Pulled me into a meeting to tell me to only go through her.

Posted May 13, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

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