It's hard to build trust with a leader, but it's very easy to break it, and often one sentence is all it takes.
How to mention a promotion and pay raise?
At work, when we face promotion and salary increase, we might as well give up the me-centered thinking: "Why not me", but spend more thinking on the people or things around us: "Why him?"
It's not that leaders don't like good employees, it's that they don't like good employees who don't listen and can't be controlled.