Trust, but not when money is involved

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Trust between humans is one of the most valued habits—or let’s call it a trait—but it has become very rare these days, and I guess that is why its value is always on the high side. This becomes worse when money is involved, and that is why it is known in our existence on this earth that we should never trust anyone when money is involved, because money has a very big negative spirit in it, waiting for the slightest opportunity to strike.

Even with this warning, most of us still trust people when dealing with money. Does it mean that we do not know the caution about not trusting when money is involved? We do know, but we still do it—giving the benefit of the doubt a chance to have its way and finding a means to gain the scarce trait called TRUST.

THE TIME I WAS DISAPPOINTED BY SOMEONE I TRUSTED

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From my first paragraph, you already know that the disappointment was because of money.
Well, I had a boss I trusted very much because he was well-mannered and from a decent Christian home. All through my stay with him—before I was disappointed, say about two years—I never heard of him being accused of money theft or anything related to money. But it happened, and not just to any other person, but to me, to us.

It was towards Christmas of that particular year, and bonuses were added to our pay as Christmas bonuses. I knew nothing about it because I was paid my normal salary by my boss—until I heard about the bonus from other staff in the other branch in the city.

The thing is, my boss was also an employed staff. We all got paid by the headquarters of our organization. They would forward the finances to different branches, and the branches would make the payments directly to their staff.
That month, bonuses were added, and my boss decided to take the bonuses for himself while he paid us only our actual salaries.
Why?
What was the reason for that?
Even if there was something, would he not have told us?

These are the questions we (the three staff in my branch) lamented over, and when we summoned the courage to ask him—even knowing we were putting our jobs at risk—he could not give a reasonable answer.
He knew he could not lie that he used the money to put things in order in the office because we were the ones running the office, and he had not done anything like that. He also could not claim he was going to use the money for something else in the office. I guess he did not think we would find out or probably have the boldness to ask him, so he simply did not have any lie to cook up.
The end of the story is that he just kept mute, and we never received the bonus. We did not bother to ask him again because we already knew he had kept the money for himself. I was so disappointed in him.
I did not last until the next Christmas before I resigned from the job.

This is for Day 23 in Aprilinleo prompt

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