Offers lesser responsibility: One fine morning you come to office and you find out that you are stripped of your responsibilities and maybe your team is divided without your knowledge. Then it is a sure sign that there is something unpleasant on the horizon. After all, your boss cannot fire a person who's got a ton of important work to do, with many people underneath you. So over time, he will reduce the work given to you, reduce the people under you and eventually a new job title of which you have no clue about. Eventually you will have a hard time finding anything of real value to do all day.