

Never hold your breath when your superior tells you that they’d promote you.
I’ve had a boss who was telling me from the start that he had plans for me. Three years passed by, no promotion, no raise, nothing.
Then I moved to a new job. My boss never promised me anything. I never got my rank promoted (yet) but I’ve had more raise than I could ever ask for.
I guess a “troubled person” would just thoughtlessly kill a bunch of kids he spent quite some time with on a whim.