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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

short timer

Someone who is sentenced to the county pokey for 30 days or less.
Quit yer bitch ass cryin', you're just a short timer.
short timer by taraka.san August 26, 2009

Short Timer

A luck son of a bitch who moves out west for the snow season in a couple of days, so clearly not a fuck will be given at work.
That bastard will be waist deep in fresh powder in two days, fucking short timer.
Short Timer by ecov spmah December 5, 2011

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's syndrome 

Originally dating back to the Vietnam War. When one's rotation date (leave the country) was near, one lost focus on still being a soldier, and became a liability instead of an asset. Also, the period of time at the end of the 12th grade, when one has already been accepted into a college or the military, and is just waiting for the Senior Prom and Graduation ceremonies.
I wonder if Simon Cowell is getting short-timer's syndrome on American Idol?
short-timer's syndrome by Guido1 March 11, 2010
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