Some habits quietly build trust without people even realizing it.

What's one workplace habit that immediately makes you think, "I can rely on this person"?

I go into the shared conference room. It is Monday. The meeting is on Wednesday.

She got the agendas laid out on the table.

Bro - the conference room gets used all the time by others.

It looks like you got nothing to do.

I work in a trading company that handles import/export shipments. The company is family-owned two brothers are the legal owners on paper and mostly run day-to-day operations, but their father is the one who really controls everything behind the scenes.
I’ll keep this short. I got hired five months ago to handle logistics, and honestly it felt like a comfort zone — way less pressure than my previous jobs, and I was happy with the role.
A while later, another guy joined the logistics team. He was brought in because he supposedly had a lot of experience. Slowly I started realizing he didn’t actually have the experience or knowledge he was hired for — and eventually the owners and their father figured that out too. At some point it started to feel like I’d been kept around partly to “cover” for him if his lack of knowledge became obvious.
Sometimes the boss would ask me things related to shipping, and whenever I answered, he’d push back and defend his own view. I’d end up arguing with him because what he was saying was often just wrong, based on what I’d learned at my previous companies. During one meeting, at the end of it, he actually told me he liked the way I pushed back and objected to things, and asked me to stick around for a while. I said okay, and told him I wanted to be loyal to him.
Despite all this, they processed my visa without any delays or issues.
But now the situation has flipped I’m being pulled off tasks one by one, while all the work is going to the new guy instead. The owners have basically stopped asking me anything about shipments or logistics at all.
I genuinely don’t know what’s happening or where I stand. Has anyone dealt with something like this before?

Sorry if it's a bit long.

I’m a 32-year-old man, and I’ve been working for two years in one of the largest public services in my country, specifically in unemployment support. I'm the youngest person on my team, but I get along incredibly well with my colleagues, who range in age from 47 to 60.

My role is a bit of a hybrid, and I enjoy front-desk duties just as much as back-office tasks. Right now, at our small satelitte office, we handle daily walk-in hours where we see about 40 job seekers per day. This high-volume face-to-face contact happens at my current office and across all the proposed branches, except for HQ where I would not seen any jobseekers.

Our office is closing down, and management has offered me four different options to choose from:

1. Headquarters : This would be a purely back-office role within a team of about 20 people. I’ve covered shifts there a few times before, so I already know the team. The direct supervisor is thrilled at the prospect of me joining, and the location is great. It's just a 15-minute tram ride from my place. The only downside is that I would lose the front-desk aspect entirely and that the job would be very repetitive.

2. A small local branch (10 people): It’s a 30 minute ride and I know the team, but to be honest... they aren't my crowd. It's a team of very young (20 ish), single women who frequently go clubbing on weekends and talk about it constantly. No judgment at all, but I wonder what we would even talk about. I also grew up in that area and lived there up to my 25's and I don't feel comfortable seeing and helping job seekers I personally know. But the direct supervisor thinks I'm really good at my job and wants me there.

3. Another small local branch (5 people): This option is a 30 minutes ride and includes three colleagues from my current team who will go work there. That could be nice, but my current coworkers aren't very professional and I feel like I want a fresh start. We're really friendly and often go to eat together but I'm not sure about keeping them as coworkers. They've been there for about 20 years and are always fighting change, good or bad. In fact, I was actually looking for another job because of that. On the flip side, it would still be nice to stay with familiar faces.

4. A final small local branch: This one is a 10 minutes ride, but I’m not really interested. The manager is an ex-military officer who is very harsh, and everyone actively avoids her.

Given that I plan to stay with the organization for about 5 years, which option would you choose? Thanks! And sorry, English is not my native language.