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Short Timers

When a person gets promoted and has to stay in their current position for a week or two.
Mike's got Short Timers man! He took vacation for the last 4 days in his current position!
Short Timers by me February 24, 2006

Short Timers Disease

The inability to care about your job or that of your co-workers when your departure from your place of employment is imminent. Symptoms include some or all of the following: coming in late; making excuses to leave early; an ever-lengthening lunch hour; cleaning your desk weeks or even months in advance of said departure; treating co-workers like crap because you are leaving and they are staying; telling everyone and anyone who does or does not care about the details or the new job.
Man does Steve has a bad case of Short Timers Disease.
Short time, Short Timer

short timer syndrome 

The behaviors that kick in when you are about to leave something, usually a job. There are two facets, one is that all of the little crap that you've been ignoring and tolerating starts driving you crazy. The other is the idea that you're leaving anyway so you can get away with anything.
The accountant with short timer syndrome was thinking about wearing flip flops to work during his last two weeks before starting a new job. And the short timer in Ann Arbor, about to move to Buffalo had to resist the urge to strangle all of the smug half-wit aging hippies.

short timer

That bastard co-worker who found a better job and no longer gives a shit about shit.
Don't even bother waking Jim, he's a short timer.
short timer by kevin December 7, 2003

short timer

After turning in your resignation, you end up not giving a damn about your job during the remaining two weeks notice you gave them
Sure, I'm leaving and gave two weeks notice, but I REALLY want it to be over NOW. I have short timer disease

Short Timer

Any person in the military that has a year or less on their contract. Therefore they don't give a flying fuck about their job anymore.
SPC Joe Snuffy: Man i got to wake up and go to pt. Fuck that im going back to bed im a short timer.
Short Timer by fat bastard child November 17, 2011
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So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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